Shah of Shahs
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679738015 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
Review:
"A book of great economy and power...with vivid imagery, a breathless way of writing that carries the reader along, and a supreme sense of the absurd." —New Republic
"Like Sir Richard Butron, Evelyn Waugh and Mungo Park, [Kapuscinski] makes literature out of journalism." —Newsweek
"Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a participant." —The New York Times Book Review
"A supercharged particle of a book." —Los Angeles Times
Synopsis:
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.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679738015
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Middle East
- Subject:
- Middle East - Iran
- Subject:
- Middle East - General
- Subject:
- Iran
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- Social conditions
- Copyright:
- 1992
- Edition Description:
- Vintage Intl
- Publication Date:
- February 1992
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 160
- Dimensions:
- 7.99x5.18x.45 in. .42 lbs.











