Prologue 1(6)
The Beginning
7(16)
Childhood Ends
23(20)
America Again
43(22)
The Tolbert Years
65(28)
The 1980 Coup
93(20)
Climbing the Corporate Ladder
113(6)
The 1985 Elections
119(18)
The Attempted Coup
137(18)
Escape
155(10)
Equator Bank and the Charles Taylor War
165(22)
Ecomog
187(8)
UNDP and Rwanda
195(10)
War Some More/1997 Elections
205(16)
Self-imposed Exile, or Exile Again
221(14)
Accra and the Transition
235(10)
Becoming President
245(24)
Inauguration Day
269(6)
The First Hundred Days
275(16)
Some Challenges Ahead
291(18)
The Future
309(8)
Appendix: Inaugural Speech 317(18)
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Acknowledgments 335(2)
Bibliography 337(2)
Index 339