Helene Cooper, Madame President
海伦•库伯《女总统》
Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist Cooper, who was born in Liberia, traces the rise of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first democratically elected female president in Africa and a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Sirleaf was born in 1938, educated in Monrovia and the US (including a master’s degree at Harvard), and served as finance minister. Jailed by the military dictator Samuel Doe, she went into exile. In the 2005 presidential elections, Sirleaf generated a huge voting bloc of Liberian women, leading her to victory. Cooper’s incisive portrait is undergirded by her reporting on the country’s internal power struggles and years of dictatorial rule, Doe’s bloody military coup and civil war sparked by the notoriously brutal Charles Taylor. She also details the challenges Sirleaf met, including a $4.7 billion debt and the Ebola virus.
曾经获得普利策奖的美国记者库伯出生于利比里亚,她在本书中追踪记录了非洲首位民选女总统及2011年诺贝尔和平奖获得者埃伦•约翰逊•瑟利夫的成功之路。瑟利夫出生于1938年,曾在蒙罗维亚和美国接受教育(在哈佛大学获得硕士学位),担任过利比里亚财政部长。被军事独裁者塞缪尔•杜伊监禁之后,瑟利夫开始流亡生涯。在2005年的总统选举中,瑟利夫获得了大量女性选民的支持,并最终获胜。库伯对于利比里亚国内的政权争斗、多年独裁统治、杜伊的血腥军事政变以及由凶残的查尔斯•泰勒引发的内战的报道为她的深入描写提供了坚实的基础。她同时还详细描写了瑟利夫面临的各种挑战,其中包括47亿美元的债务和埃博拉病毒。
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