Shah of Shahs

"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 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.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 02/04/1992
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780679738015