a careful examination of Schwarzenegger's life—in this case more than 40 interviews with current and former colleagues, friends, and opponents—demonstrates that his path to the governor's mansion has been anything but accidental. "I was always dreaming about powerful people, dictators, and things like that," Schwarzenegger mused in the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron. "I was always impressed by people who could be remembered ... like Jesus for thousands of years."
Schwarzenegger's unlikely ascension owes almost all to his boundless ambition and wily calculation, which culminated in an exquisitely engineered business deal. It would be a deal that neutralized his most formidable enemies and deprived his detractors of their most potent weapon. It enabled him to prevail in the recall election, and it allowed him to pursue the star turn he so long ago dreamed for himself: to be the Conan of American politics.
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