Shah of shahs - Kapuscinski Ryszard

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
In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographers perspective and a novelists 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