Since being elected president of France in 2017, Emmanuel Marcon has emerged as both an unexpected domestic radical and a strong voice for Europe. In this detailed profile, Drozdiak, former senior editor and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and now a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings’s Center on the United States and Europe, draws on several one-on-one interviews with Macron to chart the one-time Socialist from his founding of the centrist En Marche party in 2016 through a wide range of challenges including Trump's attacks on NATO, Merkel's step away from public life, Italy's government of nihilists and satirists, the Gilets Jaunes protesters, the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and the endless turmoil of Brexit.