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.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
- ISBN10 1306988462
- ISBN13 9781306988469
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published 1 January 1985)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vintage
- Format eBook
- Language English