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.
Andrew Scott Cooper is the author of The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, which Simon and Schuster published in 2011. His writing on contemporary Iran appears regularly in The Guardian. He lives in Brooklyn.
"Riveting . . . Based on various documentary sources as well as
impressive access to royalists, revolutionaries, Queen Farah
Pahlavi, and various U.S. officials, this thorough work is
immensely detailed yet readable and continuously engaging."
--Publishers Weekly "[Cooper] delves intimately into the life of
the leader who believed firmly in the separation of church and
state and who seemed stern and humorless to the public yet was a
devoted father of five children and had no patience for the imams
dragging their feet on reforms. . . A thorough new appraisal of an
enigmatic ruler who died believing his people still loved him."
--Kirkus (starred review) "Cooper provides an expert and more
nuanced view of the Shah, his regime, and its collapse....This is a
fine revisionist study of major world events that continue to
influence the fate of the Middle East." --Booklist"Here is all the
power and glamour--but also the dark side and ultimately the
tragedy--of the last Shah of Iran. A moving and thoroughly
researched account." --Robert Lacey, author of The Kingdom and
Inside the Kingdom"The Fall of Heaven is a vivid and penetrating
portrait of the last chapters of imperial Iran and the ruler whose
attempt to thrust his country into modernity ended with upheaval
and exile. This book provides valuable insight into the background
of a revolution that is still shaking international politics
today."
--Paul R. Pillar, twenty-eight-year veteran of the CIA and senior
fellow at Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution
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