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    Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

     
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    Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

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    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, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration.

    In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war 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.

    Readers 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 beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family.

    Intimate and sweeping at once, 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.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781250304858
    Edition:
    Reprint
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    617
    Publication date:
    2018-05-15
    Publisher:
    Picador Paper
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781250304858
    Edition:
    Reprint
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    617
    Publication date:
    2018-05-15
    Publisher:
    Picador Paper

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