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

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

By Andrew Scott Cooper

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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. In this remarkably human portrait of one of the 20th century's most complicated personalities, author Andrew Scott Cooper traces Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He highlights the turbulence of the postwar era, during which the shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to bu...