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Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
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Shah of Shahs (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a
compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the
devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the
tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the
Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can
turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that
proves a complete failure. Yet even as Iran becomes a 'behemoth of
riches' and as the Shah lives like a European billionaire, its
people live in a climate of fear, terrorized by the secret police.
Told with intense power and feeling, Kapuscinski portrays the
inevitable build-up to revolution - a cataclysmic upheaval that
delivered Iran into the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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