Shah of Shahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shah of Shahs write by Ryszard Kapuscinski. This book was released on 2014-08-06. Shah of Shahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
Shah of Shahs
Shah of Shahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shah of Shahs write by Ryszard Kapuscinski. This book was released on 1985-03-18. Shah of Shahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This journalist’s portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is “a book of great economy and power [with] a supreme sense of the absurd” (New Republic). Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense out of the mass of notes, tapes, and photographs he had accumulated during his extended stay in Iran. Just what happened and how? What did Khomeini have to offer that the Shah, who promised to “create a second America within a generation,” did not? Where did the revolution come from, and where is it going? After all this blood has been spilled, what has it given its people or the world? “We have given [the world] poetry, the miniature, and carpets,” says a rug merchant in Teheran. “We have given the world this miraculous, Unique uselessness.” Kapuściński tells a rich story that combines factual reporting with his own impressions and reflections. Always engrossing and frequently revelatory, it is a unique portrait of the psychological state of a country in revolution.
Shah of Shahs
Shah of Shahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shah of Shahs write by Ryszard Kapuscinski. This book was released on 2006-06. Shah of Shahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power.
The Shah's Last Ride
The Shah's Last Ride - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shah's Last Ride write by William Shawcross. This book was released on 1989-10-15. The Shah's Last Ride available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Simon & Schuster, The Shah's Last Ride is William Shawcross' unforgettable work of exile and American foreign policy. The acclaimed author of Sideshow, The Shah's Last Ride captures the behind-the-scenes drama of the Shah of Iran's strange journey into exile—and its crucial impact on American foreign policy and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini.
All the Shah's Men
All the Shah's Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Shah's Men write by Stephen Kinzer. This book was released on 2004-08-12. All the Shah's Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first full-length account of the CIA's coup d'etat in Iran in 1953—a covert operation whose consequences are still with us today. Written by a noted New York Times journalist, this book is based on documents about the coup (including some lengthy internal CIA reports) that have now been declassified. Stephen Kinzer's compelling narrative is at once a vital piece of history, a cautionary tale, and a real-life espionage thriller.
