{"product_id":"adenauer-the-father-of-the-new-germany-9780471407379","title":"Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany","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)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985404133650,"sku":"9780471407379","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0ca59de4-8765-428d-b830-30a21eee11c0.jpg?v=1769533442","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/adenauer-the-father-of-the-new-germany-9780471407379","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}