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This child will be great : memoir of a remarkable life by Africa's first woman president / Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Author
Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen, 1938-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : Harper, ©2009.
Description
353 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DT636.53.J64 A3 2009
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Subject(s)
Presidents
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Liberia
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Biography
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Women presidents
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Liberia
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Biography
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Liberia
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Politics and government
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1980-
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Liberia
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Biography
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Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen 1938-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Autobiographies
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Biographies
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collective biographies
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
From Liberian President Sirleaf--Africa's first elected female president--comes an inspirational memoir about her improbable rise to international prominence, her fight for political freedom, and her unwavering determination to rebuild Liberia in the wake of civil war.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
Narrated by Robin Miles.
Contents
The beginning
Childhood ends
America again
The Tolbert years
The 1980 coup
Climbing the corporate ladder
The 1985 elections
The attempted coup
Escape
Equator bank and the Charles Taylor war
ECOMOG
UNDP and Rwanda
War some more/1997 elections
Self-imposed exile, or exile again
Accra and the transition
Becoming President
Inauguration day
The first hundred days
Some challenges ahead
The future
Appendix: Inaugural speech by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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ISBN
9780061353475 ((acid-free paper))
0061353477 ((acid-free paper))
9780061720123
0061720127
LCCN
2009017220
OCLC
232978243
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