TY - BOOK AU - Waugh, Colin M. TI - Charles Taylor and Liberia: ambition and atrocity in Africa?s Lone Star State SN - 9781848138476 U1 - 966.620WAU PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Zed Books KW - aylor, Charles Ghankay N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [360]-363) N2 - Campaigner, 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 ER -