num_pages: 160
description: In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a 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. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution.
language: English
title: Shah of Shahs
titlecomplete: Shah of Shahs
characters: Ryszard Kapuściński, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
genres: Asia, Iran, Politics, Biography, Polish Literature, Travel, Poland, Nonfiction, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 6640
places: Persia, Iran
publisher: Vintage