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'And So Liberia Was Born'
Prior to becoming President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was head of the Governance Reform Commission of Liberia, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program, and an economist at the World Bank. She was the first Chairwoman of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) and the first female Finance Minister of Liberia. She lives in Monrovia, Liberia.
In an exclusive excerpt from the Liberian president's memoir, she recounts the birth of her nation as a colony for freed slaves sent "back" from America.
Africa's Powerhouse Prez
Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
In a new memoir, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounts her remarkable climb to become Africa's most powerful woman. She talks to Lynn Sherr about how men have failed us-and waiting for Obama's call.
New York Times reporter Helene Cooper's new memoir The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood is a triumph in the face of tragedy-a personal journey that gives us a glimpse into a rarely explored part of African life...
Zain Verjee is CNN's State Department correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. Named to that position in November 2006, Verjee has traveled to the Middle East and other parts of the word to report on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US diplomacy. She also reports for the innovative series New Diplomat.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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