Helmut Kohl - Ein Porträt der Macht
(A Portrait of Power)

The Kohl phenomenon: how could this gigantic - in all senses - statesman have once been the clumsy politician who reeled from one banana skin to another, the laughing-stock of the nation and often a source of general embarrassment? How can a man of whom even his own associates often despaired, become the longest-serving head of government, win international acclaim and perhaps go down in history as one of the greatest Chancellors in post-war German history?

With the detachment of a well-informed outsider, Patricia Clough examines the development, crises and triumphs of Kohl's political career from its childhood beginnings to the "autumn of the patriarch" in 1998.

Patricia Clough avoids mockery but analyses (his life) in a detached and serious manner, showing herself to be an excellent psychological and political writer. (Amazon.de, recommending the book in a list compiled to mark the 50th anniversary of Germany's constitution.)

The book was published by DTV, Munich 1998.
ISBN  3423241225