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With the announcement of his resignation from the World Bank, the ongoing saga of Paul Wolfowitz, played out in the front pages of the world's newspapers, came to a dramatic conclusion. Paul D. Wolfowitz, as columnist George F. Will wrote in the
Washington Post (May 12, 2005), has never been elected to office or served in a president's cabinet, but he has mattered much more than most who have. A longtime State Department hand (Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Ambassador to Indonesia), a leading scholar/intellectual (Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies), Deputy Secretary of Defense for four years, and one of the architects of the Bush Doctrine, Wolfowitz is a crucial figure in post-Cold War foreign and security policy. He most recently served as President of the World Bank. In each of these roles, he has stood out for his neoconservative and often uncompromising positions. It is no wonder that he is often vilified by the Left and lionized by the Right. In this first full-length biography of Wolfowitz, Solomon attempts to capture him not by delineating the quotidian details of his career, but by tracing his intellectual development and bureaucratic influence at key points along the road to Baghdad and beyond.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
1Chapter 2. The Personal and Intellectual Roots of Paul Wolfowitz's Worldview
9Chapter 3. Wolfowitz, the Practical Idealist
20Chapter 4. Wolfowitz Views the United States as the World's Sole Superpower
42Chapter 5. The Road to Baghdad, Part One: Operation Desert Storm
55Chapter 6. The Road to Baghdad, Part Two: Operation Enduring Freedom
71Chapter 7. The Road to Baghdad, Part Three: Operation Iraqi Freedom
85Chapter 8. The Aftermath of the War and the Quest for Democracy in Iraq and Elsewhere in the Middle East
100Chapter 9. Wolfowitz at The World Bank
129Postscript 152Notes155Selected Bibliography199Index201
About the author
Lewis D. Solomon is Van Vleck Research Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. He is the author of numerous books, among them From Athens to America: Virtues and the Formulation of Public Policy (2006), The Quest for Human Longevity (2006), and In God We Trust? Faith-based Organizations and the Quest to Solve America's Social Ills (2003).
