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of writing that carries the reader along, and a supreme sense of the absurd."
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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.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0141188049
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