ALL THE SHAH'S MEN: The Hidden Story of the CIA's Coup in Iran
Stephen Kinzer, . . Wiley, $24.95 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-471-26517-7
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
Reviewed on: 05/12/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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