Shah of shahs.

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 gener...

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Main Author: Kapuściński, Ryszard (Author)
Other Authors: Brand, William R, Mroczkowska- Brand, Katarzyna
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Penguin Books, 1985.
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