Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic

Over the course of his long and controversial career, Joschka Fischer evolved from an archetypal 1960s radical—a firebrand street activist—into a shrewd political insider, operating at the heights of German politics. In the 1980s he was one of the first elected Greens and went on to become Germany's foreign minister from 1998 to 2005. His famous challenge to Donald Rumsfeld's case for invading Iraq—"Excuse me, I am not convinced"—won him worldwide recognition, and the Bush administration's co…