The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (988 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01E97TNK2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 255 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He highlights the turbulence of the postwar era, during which the shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. In this remarkably human portrait of one of the 20th century's most complicated personalities, author Andrew Scott Cooper traces Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late shah's widow, Empress Farah. Listeners get the story of the shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right; the story of the beloved family they created; and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. At once intimate and sweeping, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those
How and why does an emerging modern miracle become a theocracy? This a wonderful book and an important one about a very important time and world event. We recently returned from a trip to Iran and the shadow of the Shah and Queen is every where. Virtually every park, every museum, every freeway and boulevard, every major hotel, and more were built during th. Iran's revolution as it happened,not as the NY Times reported it . Jim Rossi I could not put this down .I was struck at how similar The Iranian Revolution and The Russian Revolution were. Both were a popular uprising,highjacked by fanatics that then proceeded to kill more "enemies" than the regime they overthrew and both turned on themselves .There is only a slight ment. "Golden age of Persia" according to Benjamin Sh. As a Persian I was always curious how this happened?! What happened to our modern powerful kingdom of Persia?! The greatest democracy in the region! My parents mentioned many times their revolution stolen by extremists and right wingers, Iran still a very rich and modern country and safest plac