Name: Shah of Shahs
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Author: Ryszard Kapuściński
ISBN: 9780679738015

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ryszard Kapuściński

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1992

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1 x 13.0 x 1.0 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0679738010

ISBN13

9780679738015

Synopsis "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.

Ryszard Kapuściński

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Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland, 1932-2007) was a foreign correspondent until 1981. Since 1987, Anagrama has published The Polish Jungle, Black Stars, Christ with a Rifle on His Shoulder, Another Day of Life, The Emperor, The Soccer War, The Shah, The Empire, Ebony, Cynics are Not Suitable for This Profession, Lapidarium IV, Today's World, Travels with Herodotus, and Encounter with the Other. Among his numerous awards is the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, awarded in 2003.

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