The Last Shah

Deeply nuanced and eloquent."-Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power. This revolution was not, as many believe, the popular overthrow of a powerful and ruthless puppet of the United States; rather, it followed decades of corrosion of Iran's political establishment by an autocratic ruler who demanded fealty but lacked the personal strength to make hard decisions and, ultimately, lost the support of every sector of Iranian society.

The Last Shah features in the following genres: Middle Eastern history, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, Politics and government

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The Last Shah was written by Ray Takeyh and published by Yale University Press

The Last Shah has 336 pages

Yes it is part of Council on Foreign Relations Books series

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