The Shah’s Story by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Hardcover)

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In this important and controversial book, the Shah describes his family upbringing, his attainment of power in 1953, with American help, and the reasons for his downfall. He outlines his aims as ruler of Iran and replies frankly to his critics, assessing his own failures and errors of judgement, as well as his success in bringing Iran from the backward and poverty-stricken country of fifty years ago in to the modern world. What happens in Iran is of vital interest to the rest of the world, and this account by the man at the eye of the storm is an essential contribution to our understanding of the situation there.