Discussion on "ALL THE SHAH'S MEN"

Persian Center's Persian Book Club Presents:

Discussion on "ALL THE SHAH'S MEN"
by STEPHEN KINZER (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

SUNDAY, January 25th at 10:30am
2029 Durant Avenue in Berkeley

Also there will be a viewing a documentary on
Mossadegh's life. For more info, contact Frances Kibbe, at
fkibbe@yahoo.com.
BOOK DESCRIPTION from Publishers Weekly:
With breezy storytelling and diligent research, Kinzer has
reconstructed the CIA's 1953 overthrow of the elected leader of
Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who was wildly popular at home for having
nationalized his country's oil industry. The coup ushered in the
long and brutal dictatorship of Mohammad Reza Shah, widely seen as a
U.S. puppet and himself overthrown by the Islamic revolution of
1979. At its best this work reads like a spy novel, with code names
and informants, midnight meetings with the monarch and a last-minute
plot twist when the CIA's plan, called Operation Ajax, nearly goes
awry. A veteran New York Times foreign correspondent and the author
of books on Nicaragua (Blood of Brothers) and Turkey (Crescent and
Star), Kinzer has combed memoirs, academic works, government
documents and news stories to produce this blow-by-blow account.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Reviewed/approved by Talieh Shahrokhi.