'Suharto was born into a poor peasant family, but he presided over his country's industrial transformation and is thought by many to control a family fortune worth billions of dollars, Such paradox is a key motif of his life; together with his public mask and evasive, undemonstrative manner, it makes the task of attempting to understand the man elusive in the extreme'
1. Beginnings and youth
2. Soldier in the revolution
3. Central Java commands, 1950-1959
4. High office, 1959-1965
5. The coup attempt
6. The move to power, 1965-1968
7. Legitimation and consolidation, 1968-1973
8. Negotiating the problems of the New Order, 1973-1983
9. Ascendancy
10. Decline, fall, accounting
11. The man and his legacy