All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Stephen Kinzer

272 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
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Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves as a...

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