Choosing the Hero

My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa’s First Woman President

De: K. Riva Levinson

Narrado por: K. Riva Levinson

Duración: 6 h y 3 m

Resumen del Editor

The rise of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to become the president of Liberia and the first woman elected to lead an African nation is one of the most inspiring stories of our time. But Sirleaf could not have done it alone. Among the people who worked tirelessly to help her achieve her victory was Washington, DC - based international consultant and lobbyist K. Riva Levinson. Choosing the Hero is Levinson’s compelling account of her life and career, and how she joined forces with Sirleaf to fight for a cause bigger than either of them.

With gripping anecdotes, Levinson describes her adventures working in some of the most dangerous places on earth, from Somalia to Iraq. But it is her efforts on behalf of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that form the heart of Choosing the Hero. Levinson chronicles her behind-the-scenes lobbying for the exiled Sirleaf in Washington, DC, as well as her on-the-ground work in Liberia. It took three tries for Sirleaf to finally win the presidency in 2005. President Sirleaf won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, and in 2018 she oversaw the first peaceful, democratic transition of presidential power in Liberia in seventy-five years. 

Choosing the Hero is an exciting narrative about Sirleaf’s struggle to create a future for Liberia. It’s a bird’s-eye view of the inner-workings of the lobbying and public relations business in Washington, DC, and the making of US foreign policy. But most of all, it is Riva Levinson’s personal story of how she found a hero, fought for a worthy cause, and discovered her soul in the process.

©2016 K. Riva Levinson (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

Riveting personal journey of courage and heroism

With a captivating forward narrated by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 24th President of Liberia, Africa's first female Head of State and a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Choosing the Hero starts off strong and doesn't slow down.

Most will never touch the close encounters with the soul of humanity in so many disparate pockets of the planet in such a personal way and witness history up front and in person as does Ms. Levinson. Riva not only has taken (by her own choice) a front seat to many critical events in recent world history throughout the Middle East and Africa, she played a strategic and influential role in some of the most important and progressive moments in the 21st century.

Choosing the Hero is a very personal journey filled with candid honesty, hope and inspiration for what the best in humanity can accomplish to overcome the worst.