TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waugh,Colin M.
TI  - Charles Taylor and Liberia: ambition and atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State 
SN  - 9781848138476
AV  - DT636 .W38 
U1  - 966.6203 W354c 2011 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, England, New York, NY
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Taylor, Charles Ghankay.
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Liberia
KW  - Biography
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1989-1996
KW  - Civil War, 1999-2003
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-363) and index; Foundations of a settlement -- Spirit of Liberia -- Confronting the old order -- Sergeant-in-charge: Samuel Doe's presidency -- Doe's decline, Taylor's travels -- Charles Taylor's war -- Pantomime of peace -- Greater Liberia: prospering and assimilating -- Sierra Leone: Liberia's sister revolution -- Election victory and the Taylor presidency -- Government embattled -- Relations with the United States -- Liberian legacy -- Justice a la carte
N2  - Campaigner, insurgent, arms dealer, warlord, commodity trafficker, elected president, international fugitive, and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his native Liberia to change but instead destroyed it in a frenzy of violence, greed, and uncontrolled personal ambition. In the process, he threw much of Liberia's neighboring region into turmoil for over a decade, finally facing judgment in The Hague for his role in the Sierra Leone conflict. In this book, Colin Waugh examines both the life of Taylor himself, as well as the sometimes idealistic but often self-interested efforts of the international community to first save Liberia and the region from disaster, then, having failed to do so, to bring to justice the man it deems most to blame for the turmoil
ER  -