| Shah of Shahs Contributor(s): Kapuscinski, Ryszard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679738010 ISBN-13: 9780679738015 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1992 Annotation: In this book, the author brings a mythographer's perspective and novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into 'a second America in a generation', only to be toppled virtually overnight. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Middle Eastern - History | Revolutionary - History | Middle East - Iran |
| Dewey: 955 |
| LCCN: 91050497 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand. |