The politics of truth: inside the lies that led to war and betrayed my wife's CIA identity : a diplomat's memoir

Maps

1: Sixteen words

2: Getting started in a diplomatic career

3: Back to Africa with twins

4: Coming to Baghdad

5: How to shake hands with a dictator

6: Of hostages and convoys

7: Noose for a necktie

8: Watching the war from a distance

9: All in a diplomat's life from Gabon to Albania

10: Diplomats and generals

11: US peacekeeping in Bosnia

12: Coming home for good

13: Taking President Clinton to Africa

14: Private citizen

15: Road to the second Gulf War

16: What I didn't find in Africa

17: Strange encounter with Robert Novak

18: Frog-marching

19: Criminal investigation

20: Family photo

21: Long strange trip

Timelines

Acknowledgments

Newspaper commentaries published by Ambassador Joseph Wilson before and after the United States invasion of Iraq in 2003

Bibliography

Index

About the author.