Madame President, Author's Note, page xi, (2017)
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I have always been a daughter of two countries, in large part because without America, my adopted country, my native country of Liberia would not exist.
— Helene Cooper
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About Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper (born April 22, 1966) is a Liberian-born American journalist who is a Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. She was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. She is the author of a memoir, The House at Sugar Beach and of Madame President, a biography of Liberia's first woman president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
About Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper (born April 22, 1966) is a Liberian-born American journalist who is a Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. She was a member of The New York Times reporting team that received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. She is the author of a memoir, The House at Sugar Beach and of Madame President, a biography of Liberia's first woman president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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