Jan
19
11:00pm
“Women On Wednesdays”: Kati Marton - “The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel”
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As part of our “Women on Wednesdays” series, please join American University's Women & Politics Institute for a virtual conversation with WPI Executive Director Betsy Fischer Martin and award-winning journalist Kati Marton, author of the book, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel. Heralded as the “definitive biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel," Marton's new book provides unique detail into "remarkable rise and political brilliance of the most powerful—and elusive—woman in the world.”
Based on “rigorous research” and “unparalleled empathy,” Kati Marton explores how Angela Merkel overcame liabilities as a “triple outsider”— a scientist, a woman, and an East German—to ascend to the chancellery. Ultimately, Marton reveals how Merkel has “redefined the image of a female leader” and portrays a woman who has “survived extraordinary challenges to transform her own country and return it to the global stage.”
Order a signed copy of the book from Politics and Prose here(signed copies available while supplies last).
ABOUT KATI MARTON
Kati Marton is the author of True Believer: Stalin’s Last American Spy; Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America (2016), a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World; Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History; Wallenberg; The Polk Conspiracy; and A Death in Jerusalem. She is an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent.
ABOUT BETSY FISCHER MARTIN
Betsy Fischer Martin is an Emmy-winning journalist and former TV news executive. Currently, she is the Executive Director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University and a faculty member in the School of Public Affairs, where she teaches courses on campaigns and elections. During her earlier career in television news, she spent 23 years at NBC News serving as the longtime Executive Producer of Meet the Press with Tim Russert and as the Managing Editor of NBC News Political Programming.
A native of New Orleans, Fischer Martin did her undergraduate and graduate work at American University in Washington, DC. She is a cum laude graduate of their School of Public Affairs and earned a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the AU School of Communication.
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