Konrad Adenauer – The Father of the New Germany

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C. Williams

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A fascinating life of the father of the New Germany In an astonishing political career that spanned six decades including fourteen years as chancellor of West Germany Konrad Adenauer (1876 - 1967) was instrumental in shaping the modern political landscape, both of his own country and of Europe. Charles Williams's monumental biography offers a welcome reappraisal of this influential statesman. It explores Adenauer's Catholic upbringing during the Kaiserreich and his early political career first as a deputy mayor and as Oberburgermeister of Cologne. It shows his rise to national prominence in the Weimar Republic of the 1920s, and his subsequent reversals: financially in the Wall Street Crash; politically by the growth of Nazism. Acclaimed for his remarkable portrait of Charles de Gaulle, Charles Williams draws on hitherto untapped sources for this biography from the former Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic. Adenauer is as much a book about the making of modern Germany as it is about one of the twentieth century's foremost statesmen.

Author Biography:

Charles Williams, Lord Williams of El-vel, has enjoyed a distinguished political career,becomingaLabour Life Peer in 1985beforebeingelected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in 1989. He is theauthor oftwo brilliantly received biographies, The Last Great Frenchman and Bradman.

Release date NZ

January 25th, 2001

Author

C. Williams

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

608

Dimensions

156x234x34

ISBN-13

9780471407379

Product ID

5862650

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