A review by dajna
First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin by Nataliya Gevorkyan, Vladimir Putin, Natalya Timakova

3.0

I'm not sure how astonishingly frank and how astonishingly staged these interviews were, but this man has an answer for everything.
The book portraits a driven, self-made man who, almost by accident, became president of Russia.
He is also a good family man, as described by his teachers, his wife, his daughters and his friends.
The book scraps away a lot of the mystic aurea that has been surrounding Putin recently, but it doesn't add much to the story of the most important man of 2015.