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082 0 4 _a966.6203 W354c 2011
100 1 _aWaugh, Colin M.,
_d1955-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCharles Taylor and Liberia :
_bambition and atrocity in Africa's Lone Star State /
_cColin M. Waugh.
260 _aLondon, England ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bZed Books,
_c2011.
300 _ax, 374 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c22 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 360-363) and index.
505 0 _aFoundations 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.
520 _aCampaigner, 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.
600 1 0 _aTaylor, Charles Ghankay.
648 7 _aSince 1980
_2fast
650 0 _aPresidents
_zLiberia
_vBiography.
651 0 _aLiberia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1989-1996.
651 0 _aLiberia
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1999-2003.
651 0 _aLiberia
_xPolitics and government
_y1980-
655 7 _aBiographies.
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_cBOOK