num_pages: 176
description: 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.
language: English
title: Shah of Shahs
titlecomplete: Shah of Shahs
characters: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ryszard Kapuściński
genres: Nonfiction, History, Travel, Polish Literature, Poland, Asia, Biography, Journalism, Iran, Politics
ratings_count: 6640
places: Iran, Persia
publisher: Penguin Classics