A brilliant biography of one of the great political eccentrics of modern times - Muhammad Mossadegh.
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Iranian and Indian Studies. Between 1996 and 2007, he lived and worked as a journalist in south Asia and the Middle East, writing for The Economist, the Financial Times, the Independent and the New York Review of Books. He and his Iranian wife, the artist Bita Ghezelayagh, returned from Tehran to the UK in 2007 so that de Bellaigue could take up a fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford. They now divide their time between London and Tehran.
[It] is about a wildly popular figure who promised Iran's future
would not be dependent on paying homage to the west: Mohammed
Mossadegh, who was brutally removed from power in a coup
orchestrated by the CIA in 1953. De Bellaigue is an outstanding
journalist and you can tell why
*History Today*
De Bellaigue’s book is unsurpassed as a rounded portrait of
Mossadegh
*Times Literary Supplement*
De Bellaigue portrays some fascinating, and often farcical, stories
of political life in Iran
*Independent*
A rich and timely immersion
*Financial Times*
Compelling
*Sunday Times*
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