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American warlord : a true story / Johnny Dwyer.
Van Pelt Library DT636.53.T395 D87 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dwyer, Johnny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taylor, Chucky, 1977-.
- Taylor, Chucky.
- Taylor, Charles Ghankay.
- Political violence--Liberia.
- Political violence.
- Soldiers--Liberia.
- Soldiers.
- History.
- Atrocities.
- Liberia--History--Civil War, 1989-1996--Atrocities.
- Liberia.
- Liberia--History--Civil War, 1999-2003--Atrocities.
- Liberia--Politics and government--1980-.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 344 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
- Summary:
- Chucky Taylor is the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Raised by his mother in the Florida suburbs, at the age of seventeen he followed his father to Liberia, where he ended up leading a murderous militia. Chucky is now in a federal penitentiary, the only American ever convicted of torture abroad. This shocking and essential work of reportage tells his tragic and terrifying story for the first time. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I
- 1 Been-To 11
- 2 Reunion 30
- 3 Jailbreak 44
- 4 Pine Hills 64
- Part II
- 5 Revolution 75
- 6 Gbatala 98
- 7 Uprising 115
- 8 Danger 135
- 9 Resources 156
- 10 War Business 170
- 11 Satan and The Prophet 175
- 12 ABT 195
- Part III
- 13 Exile 213
- 14 ICE 222
- 15 Flight 242
- 16 18 U.S.C. § 2340 251
- 17 Testimony 264.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307273482
- 0307273482
- OCLC:
- 883962521
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