Helmut Kohl: Eine politische Biographie by Hans-Peter Schwarz
Published 2012 · 1,056 pages · 290,400 words · about 18 hours at an average pace · Biography, History, Politics & Society
How hard is Helmut Kohl: Eine politische Biographie to read?
Helmut Kohl: Eine politische Biographie scores 42 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 48 out of 100
- Schwarz writes formal academic German with political and diplomatic terms, but the prose stays clear. It is more demanding than a journalistic biography and far simpler than literary fiction.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Long German periodic sentences with subordinate clauses carry the historical analysis. The structure is orderly and scholarly rather than experimental.
- Abstraction: 40 out of 100
- The narrative stays tied to concrete decisions, meetings and negotiations. Reflections on statesmanship and European order add some abstraction.
- Information density: 70 out of 100
- At roughly 290,000 words the book packs in party politics, summits, treaties and many named actors. Readers must track a great deal of detail across sixteen years of government.
How Helmut Kohl: Eine politische Biographie is regarded
Helmut Kohl: Eine politische Biographie holds a literary regard score of 55 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.