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Shah of Shahs

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Kapuscinski, a Polish foreign correspondent combines factual reportage and first-hand impressions to build a reflective account of the Shah of Iran, his final weeks in power, and the revolution that sent him into exile.

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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, fanaticism, and revolution.

Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.

Series: Vintage International

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780679738015

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 February 1992

Country: United States

Imprint: Vintage Books

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 11.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 167g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of Imperium, Another Day of Life, and The Soccer War. His books have been translated into 28 languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.

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