The last Shah America, Iran, and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty / Ray Takeyh.
| Author/creator | Takeyh, Ray, 1966- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] |
| Description | xiv, 315 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | America, Iran, and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty |
| Contents | Introduction: through the looking glass -- Iran under occupation -- A crisis in Azerbaijan -- The oil nationalization crisis -- The coup -- The shah's emerging autocracy -- The age of reform -- Master of the universe -- The revolution -- Republic of virtue -- Conclusion: the past has another pattern |
| Summary | The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries. Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power. This revolution was not, as many believe, the popular overthrow of a powerful and ruthless puppet of the United States; rather, it followed decades of corrosion of Iran's political establishment by an autocratic ruler who demanded fealty but lacked the personal strength to make hard decisions and, ultimately, lost the support of every sector of Iranian society. Esteemed Middle East scholar Ray Takeyh provides new interpretations of many key events-including the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq and the rise of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini-significantly revising our understanding of America and Iran's complex and difficult history. |
| General note | "A Council on Foreign Relations book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020937955 |
| ISBN | 9780300217797 hardcover |
| ISBN | 030021779X hardcover |
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