{"product_id":"adenauer-isbn-9780471407379","title":"Adenauer","description":"Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world.\" --Daily Telegraph (London)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Charts the ironies of Adenauer's complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of a sprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler.\"--The Times (London)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political.\"--The Herald (Glasgow)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently critical life-and-times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who is often invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe, but who was in truth the greatest of German patriots.\"--Literary Review (London)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Well-researched and admirably written . . . reveals Adenauer the man--with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning.\"--The Independent (London)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle.\"--The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book.\"--Daily Telegraph (London) \u003cp\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePREFACE x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: The Kaiser’s Germany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 COLOGNE: 1876 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ‘GAUDEAMUS IGITUR JUVENES DUM SUMUS’ 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 THE END OF YOUTH 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 THE LADDER OF AMBITION 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A TIME OF TRAGEDY 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 THE MANAGEMENT OF DEFEAT 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: Weimar Germany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 THE AFTERMATH OF WAR 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 LIFE HAS TO GO ON 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 THE REPARATIONS CR I S I S 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 1923 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 COLOGNE I S FREE! 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MAYOR 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 DUBIOUS MANOEUVRES 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 CONFRONTATION 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART THREE: Hitler’s Germany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 DESCENT INTO DARKNESS 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 THEY START TO CLOSE IN 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 HE NO LONGER MATTERS 241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A QUIET WAR 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 ‘THE WAR I S OVER! ’ 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART FOUR: Adenauer’s Germany\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 SACKED BY THE BRITISH 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 ANOTHER POLITICAL BIRTH – ANOTHER PERSONAL DEATH 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW GERMANY 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR 344\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 BUILDING EUROPE – AND FACING THE BEAR 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 AT HOME AND AT WORK 380\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 POLITICS IS AN ART – NOT A SCIENCE 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 WHERE DOES GERMANY STAND? 410\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 CAN ANYONE BE TRUSTED? 424\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ENTER THE GENERAL 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 KHRUSHCHEV’ S CHALLENGE 465\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 THREATS AND COUNTER-THREATS 486\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 FROM TRIUMPH TO DISMISSAL 503\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 FINALE 524\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 539\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 542\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNOTES 546\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINDEX 570\u003c\/p\u003e 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.  Konrad Adenauer––the man who has become known as the father of the New Germany––was one of the truly great leaders of the twentieth century. In an astonishing political career that spanned six decades, this extraordinary statesman lifted Germany out of the ruins of the Second World War and helped shape the modern political landscape, both of his own country and of Europe.  \u003cp\u003eMarvelously well written by esteemed biographer Charles Williams, this authoritative portrait captures the complex man who, as West Germany’s first chancellor, brought the land of the Rhine out of the devastation wrought by wartime defeat to amazing prosperity and acceptance on the world scene. Difficult yet determined, Adenauer not only instilled his homeland with both economic prosperity and democratic principles, but also succeeded in defusing the tensions between France and Germany that had dominated much of their recent history, paving the way for the Treaty of Rome and the establishment of the European Economic Community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorn in 1876 in Cologne, Adenauer was a devout Roman Catholic who rose from obscurity when he was elected mayor of that city, a position he held for sixteen years. He went on to achieve national prominence in the Weimar Republic but was imprisoned in a concentration camp when the Nazis came to power. Years later, he organized the Christian Democratic Union and became West Germany’s first chancellor, retiring after three consecutive reelections in 1963, a few years short of his ninetieth birthday.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliams draws on hitherto untapped sources from the former Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic for this new biography. In this unforgettable life story of one of history’s great statesmen, Williams captures the glory, the triumphs, the failures, and the enduring legacy of this exemplary figure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA penetrating epic tale that bears testimony to this most singular of nations, Adenauer is as much about the making of modern Germany as it is about one of the twentieth century’s foremost statesmen.\u003c\/p\u003e  Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER  \u003cp\u003e\"A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world.\"\t––Daily Telegraph (London)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Charts the ironies of Adenauer’s complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of a sprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler.\"––The Times (London)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political.\"––The Herald (Glasgow)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently critical life-and-times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who is often invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe, but who was in truth the greatest of German patriots.\"––Literary Review (London)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Well-researched and admirably written . . . reveals Adenauer the man––with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning.\"––The Independent (London)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTHE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle.\"––The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book.\"––Daily Telegraph (London)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988661027045,"sku":"NP9780471407379","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471407379.jpg?v=1761781161","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/adenauer-isbn-9780471407379","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}