Shah of Shahs

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.