Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to become the first female elected head of state in Africa's history. Madame President is the inspiring, often heartbreaking story of Sirleaf's evolution from an ordinary Liberian mother of four boys to international banking executive, from a victim of domestic violence to a political icon, from a post-war president to a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Helene Cooper deftly weaves Sirleaf's personal story into the larger narrative of the coming of age of Liberian women. The highs and lows of Sirleaf's life are filled with indelible images; from imprisonment in a jail cell for standing up to Liberia's military government to addressing the United States Congress, from reeling under the onslaught of the Ebola pandemic to signing a deal with Hillary Clinton when she was still Secretary of State that enshrined American support for Liberia's future.
Sirleaf's personality shines throughout this riveting biography. Ultimately, Madame President is the story of Liberia's greatest daughter, and the universal lessons we can all learn from this "Oracle" of African women.
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Helene Cooper. (2017). Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books.
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- BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST *
The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to become the first female elected head of state in Africa's history. Madame President is the inspiring, often heartbreaking story of Sirleaf's evolution from an ordinary Liberian mother of four boys to international banking executive, from a victim of domestic violence to a political icon, from a post-war president to a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Helene Cooper deftly weaves Sirleaf's personal story into the larger narrative of the coming of age of Liberian women. The highs and lows of Sirleaf's life are filled with indelible images; from imprisonment in a jail cell for standing up to Liberia's military government to addressing the United States Congress, from reeling under the onslaught of the Ebola pandemic to signing a deal with Hillary Clinton when she was still Secretary of State that enshrined American support for Liberia's future.
Sirleaf's personality shines throughout this riveting biography. Ultimately, Madame President is the story of Liberia's greatest daughter, and the universal lessons we can all learn from this "Oracle" of African women. - reviews
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Cooper, a Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist, shares a riveting tale of civil war, political corruption, and personal ambition. Like her memoir, The House at Sugar Beach, this biography delves into Liberia’s modern-day travails. Its heroes are women—not only Sirleaf, the first democratically elected female president of Liberia (and its current president), who earned a Nobel Peace Prize and handled the 2014 Ebola crisis, but the ordinary market women who threw their influence behind her. In 1938, Sirleaf was born into a Liberia divided by ethnic rivalries. Though Sirleaf hailed from a family of indigenous Liberians, she physically resembled the elite Congo people, descendants of American migrants. This provided her “the gift of camouflage” and eased her movement among different groups. Hardworking and well educated, Sirleaf carved out a career in finance, her entrée into government and politics. Sirleaf narrowly survived Samuel Doe’s 1980 military coup, and she lived in exile for most of Charles Taylor’s corrupt and bloody rule. She unsuccessfully challenged him for the presidency in 1997, but backed by a cross-section of women, she won in 2005. Cooper writes from the perspective of an affectionate native daughter, and though clear-eyed about Liberia’s problems, she offers little criticism of Sirleaf, leaving that delicate issue to future historians. Agent: Dorian Karchmar, WME.
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A celebratory biography of Africa's first female president and 2011 Nobel Prize winner. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times, Cooper (The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood, 2008, etc.) traces the improbable career of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (b. 1938), a woman of spectacular political achievement. Drawing heavily on Sirleaf's autobiography and interviews with her and her supporters, Cooper creates an admiring portrait that would have benefited from some distance, wider research, and more probing examination. Sirleaf perpetuated the legend that she was destined for greatness from birth, and after graduating from high school, she looked for ways to fulfill that prophecy. When reversed family fortunes precluded her going to Europe or America "to acquire finishing," at 17, she married a Western-educated 24-year-old who seemed "suave and sophisticated." After the births of four sons within the next few years, she felt frustrated about her future in sexist, desperately impoverished Liberia. When her husband went to Wisconsin for graduate study, she decided to go, too, to earn a business degree. Within a decade, she had left her abusive spouse, taken a position at Liberia's Ministry of Finance and then an assignment as a loan officer at the World Bank, where "she began to build her international contacts with the Western leaders who controlled the purse strings for developing countries." She proved herself adept at networking in financial circles, becoming a vice president at Citibank before moving to Equator Bank. With an invaluable financial career behind her, she entered politics. Cooper details the horrifying atrocities (dismemberments, rapes, mass executions) perpetrated by ruthless tyrants, the last of whom, Charles Taylor, Sirleaf initially backed. The author also reveals the support of these regimes by a succession of American administrations. Sirleaf won the presidency in 2005, inciting a violent backlash against women, including ritualistic killings. She was re-elected in 2011 despite charges of nepotism and corruption, which Cooper allows Sirleaf to defend. A brisk chronicle of a strong-willed, tireless, and determined leader.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made momentous history in 2005 when she won the Liberian presidential election, becoming the first female elected head of state in Africa's history. From the Liberian-born Pulitzer Prize--winning New York Times correspondent Cooper.Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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In this biography of Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (b. 1938), Cooper (The House at Sugar Beach) does more than document the historic rise of Liberia's first female leader. She presents a harrowing account of the Liberian civil war; the countless deaths, rapes, and abuses suffered by the people of Liberia; and the trauma experienced by children forced to take up arms, by women forced to watch their loved ones die in the most brutal fashion. It is a story of power and defiance but also of poverty, loss, and the terrible cost of war. Cooper details the lives of Liberia's market women, who watched their children perish, who answered Sirleaf's call to "vote for woman," and who fell victim to Ebola. From start to finish, Cooper presents an eye-opening account, holding nothing back. Slipping in and out of Liberian English, she creates a vivid portrait of life in Liberia, illustrating the odds and struggles Sirleaf faced. VERDICT Powerful and thoroughly researched, Cooper's narratives are haunting and cinematic in their level of detail. Recommended for readers who enjoy biographies of world leaders and African history. [See Prepub Alert, 10/3/16.]--Gricel Dominguez, Florida International Univ. Lib.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made momentous history in 2005 when she won the Liberian presidential election, becoming the first female elected head of state in Africa's history. From the Liberian-born Pulitzer Prize--winning New York Times correspondent Cooper.
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When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to become the first female elected head of state in Africa's history. Madame President is the inspiring, often heartbreaking story of Sirleaf's evolution from an ordinary Liberian mother of four boys to international banking executive, from a victim of domestic violence to a political icon, from a post-war president to a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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