Shah Of Shahs

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran and is acompelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating resultsof fear. Here Kap... » 

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran and is acompelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating resultsof fear. Here Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch who despite hiscruel oppression of the Iranian people sees himself as the father of a nationwho can turn a backward country into a great power a vain hope that proves acomplete failure. Yet even as Iran becomes a behemoth of riches and as theShah lives like a European billionaire its people live in a climate of fearterrorized by the secret police. Told with intense power and feelingKapuscinski portrays the inevitable buildup to revolution a cataclysmicupheaval that delivered Iran into the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini. «