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The Fall of Heaven - The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (Paperback)
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The Fall of Heaven - The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 5 860
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In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the
last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an
infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave
of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and scholars to
reassess the legacy of the Shah-widely denounced as a brutal,
corrupt dictator-who championed Western-style reforms and launched
Iran onto the world stage as a modern and powerful state. The Fall
of Heaven was written with exclusive access to royalists and
revolutionaries-most notably the Shah's widow Empress Farah, other
members of the Pahlavi family, and the men who deposed them: Iran's
first elected president Abolhassan Banisadr, along with other
religious and political figures active in the revolutionary
underground. These testimonials are set alongside first-person
remembrances of White House officials, along with American
diplomats and civilians in Tehran. Cooper takes readers from the
Shah's lavish palace in Tehran to the dusty streets of Najaf, where
Ayatollah Khomeini lived in exile, and from the Imperial Family's
summer retreat on the Caspian Sea to the back alleys of Beirut,
where Islamist revolutionaries plotted the regime's overthrow. Both
epic and intimate, The Fall of Heaven re-creates the dramatic final
days of a legendary ruling family, the deposition of which started
the militant unrest that still affects the Middle East today.
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