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The Shah (Paperback)
Abbas Milani
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Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980,
Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant
today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply
conflicted man and leader. Here, internationally respected author
Abbas Milani gives us the definitive biography, more than ten years
in the making, of the monarch who shaped Iran's modern age and with
it the contemporary politics of the Middle East. The Shah's was a
life filled with contradiction - he built schools, increased
equality for women, and greatly reduced the power of the Shia
clergy. He made Iran a global power and nationalized his country's
many natural resources. But he was deeply conflicted and insecure
in his powerful role. Intolerant of political dissent, he was
eventually overthrown by the very people whose loyalty he so
desperately sought. This comprehensive and gripping account shows
us how Iran went from politically moderate monarchy to totalitarian
Islamic republic. Milani reveals the complex and sweeping road that
would bring the United States and Iran to where they are today.
Tales of Two Cities is an engrossing, cross-cultural memoir of
revolution and exile. It is the story of a fifteen year-old Persian
boy sent for his eduction from an old-world, pre-oil boom Tehran,
to the new-world, avant-garde San Francisco of the 1960s. Abbas
Milani richly chronicles his education, politicization, return to
Iran, disillusionment and eventual exile. Interwoven with the brisk
narrative is a loving account of the traditional Iran of the
author's childhood; a searing memoir of a lost generation of
Iranians torn apart by revolution and exile, a graphic portrait of
the author's time in the shah's jail and of his cellmates, the
mullahs who would soon emerge as the new leaders of the Islamic
Republic. Tales of Two Cities is not only the odyssey of one
intellectual doomed to exile, but also a message of hope and
ultimately salvation for the increasing number of people forced to
leave their homeland and settle in America.
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