Paul D. Wolfowitz, as columnist George F. Will wrote in the "Washington Post" (May 12, 2003), "has never been elected to office or served in a president's cabinet, but he has mattered much more than most who have." A long-time 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 five years, and one of the architects of the Bush Doctrine, Wolfowitz is a crucial figure in post-Cold War foreign and security policy. He now serves as President of the World Bank. In each of these roles, he has stood out for his conservative and uncompromising positions. 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.