Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuściński
Desc: 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.