Shah of Shahs
Author: Ryszard Kapuściński
In this book, the author brings a mythographer’s perspective and 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…..Read More
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