A review by johndiconsiglio
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by Helene Cooper

3.0

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first female president & a Nobel Prize winner, couldn’t have commissioned a more flattering bio than Pulitzer Prize-winner Cooper’s adoring profile. It’s all about her indomitable willpower as she survives coups, prison, near-execution & Ebola. Complications need not apply. The too–conversational tone (please, please, stop calling her “Monkey”) can make this feel like history-lite, even as it keeps the story moving. Brisk, not bold. Fans won’t mind.