Reviews round-up
Freedom
by Angela Merkel
2 of 6 critics positive
7 reviews: 2 positives, 4 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“punches back, in understated Merkel style”
A much-maligned German chancellor punches back, in understated Merkel style
“candid and sometimes gripping”
Angela Merkel's blunt memoir reveals how she handled Trump and Putin
“a paean to a bygone halcyon age”
Freedom by Angela Merkel — a paean to a bygone halcyon age
“settling scores with silence”
Freedom by Angela Merkel review – settling scores with silence | Autobiography and memoir
“And She Isn’t Ready to Say Sorry”
Opinion | She Was the Most Powerful Woman in the World. And She Isn’t Ready to Say Sorry. (Published 2024)
“unlikely to lend her a Churchillian place in modern German history”
Angela Merkel is anxious about her legacy – and her memoir shows it
Christopher Clark · A Degree of Light-Heartedness: Merkel’s Two Lives
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