📚 3 Books mentioned in "Journalist Kati Marton on Angela Merkel’s Remarkable Stoicism" of The Daily Stoic

A few years ago, I read a book called Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller, and he said that we forget because we look at Lincoln from 150 years ago, we see him as just a moral figure rather than as a politician.

In this segment, the host references a book titled 'Lincoln's Virtues' by William Lee Miller, which they read a few years back. The book discusses how the perception of historical figures, like Abraham Lincoln, tends to simplify their complexity, viewing them merely as moral icons rather than the politicians they were.

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These are extraordinary skills, and sometimes I felt like I was writing Machiavelli volume two called 'The Princess.'

In this segment, the speaker draws a comparison to Machiavelli's renowned work, *The Prince*, indicating that their current writing project is akin to a follow-up volume, humorously titled 'The Princess.'

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She just doesn't think it's anybody's business, and that, in fact, here's another lesson from Machiavelli volume two is if you don't give it all away to the public, you know, that liberates a large part of you; that frees a large part of you to actually maintain life as a normal human, which she's about as normal a human as any supremely powerful player on the world stage has ever been because she didn't reveal everything.

The speaker discusses a lesson from Machiavelli's *The Prince*, implying that the subject of the podcast employs a similar philosophy in life, maintaining a level of privacy that allows for a more normal existence despite their powerful position.

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