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Shah of Shahs

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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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Shah of Shahs, Ryszard Kapuściński

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1985
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Language
English
Released
1985
Format
Hardcover
Pages
152
ISBN10
015181483X
ISBN13
9780151814831
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First published
1982
Original title
Szachinszach
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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.