The last shah : America, Iran, and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty
by Takeyh, Ray, 1966- (Author)
Summary
The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries. Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America... Full description
- Introduction: through the looking glass
- Iran under occupation
- A crisis in Azerbaijan
- The oil nationalization crisis
- The coup
- The shah's emerging autocracy
- The age of reform
- Master of the universe
- The revolution
- Republic of virtue
- Conclusion: the past has another pattern