![]() ![]() So she read back issues of People magazine and more surprisingly, Playboy, where Trump back in the '80s already displayed, you know, the bluster and bravado that we came to know so well. Well, she prepared harder for that meeting because she knew that it would be the most challenging one. ![]() And you talk in the book about how she rigorously prepared for her first meeting with him. Central to understanding Merkel is, of course, her relationship with Donald Trump. MCCAMMON: I want to talk about some of her relationships with other world leaders. But guess what? They turned out to really, really help her ascent. ![]() She's a woman who really, to this day, has an air of mystery and an almost impenetrable wall around her private life, which you can trace to her East German roots. And these were all very useful skills as she made her way in German political life. So she learned to keep her own counsel, to trust very few people and to call no attention to herself very early. So she was not only raised in the Stasi state, where something like 1 out of 4 people were informing on the others, but she was also the daughter of a pastor in an atheist state. MARTON: Oh, well, that's - I mean, you hit the nail on the head. How do you think growing up in East Germany, you know, a surveillance state at the time, a Communist country, how did that shape her personally? And first of all, I want to start with her biography. Now, as Merkel prepares to leave office, journalist, writer and one-time NPR correspondent Kati Marton has written a new biography of, as she describes her, this triple outsider. But when the most powerful woman in the world first won the chancellorship some 16 years ago, it marked an unlikely outcome for this female East German scientist who'd entered politics a little more than a decade earlier. And nothing makes a better pinup than the 1978 " Playboy Drug Chart." But the biggest revelation is what breasts looked like before implants.SARAH MCCAMMON: It seems as though Angela Merkel has been the leader of Germany forever, and in fact, she's governed the country for close to a generation. If you're weird and you actually read the articles, you'll find some classic interviews, like a 1988 sit-down with Yasir Arafat and a 1985 chat with Apple founder Steve Jobs. Other "flashes" from the past include Dana Plato, who played opposite Gary Coleman on Different Strokes, and Pamela Sue Martin, who played sleuth Nancy Drew on the ABC series. And be sure to catch Kim Basinger in 1983, just after her breakout role as a Bond girl. Check out the infamous spread of Madonna, "Unlike a Virgin," from 1985, in which she bares it all, including armpit hair. Whether you're looking to patch a hole in your collection or are nostalgic for just one more glimpse at those issues your mom threw away, this store provides hours of "reading" pleasure. These old Playboys, stacked in the basement of this retro paradise, are "collectibles," so you can stare at the boobies all you want, and nobody will call you a pervert. Remember when you were a kid, standing in the magazine section of the bookstore, drooling over an issue of Playboy hidden inside a copy of The Economist? Well, there's no need to feel ashamed here. ![]()
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