{"product_id":"shah-of-shahs-isbn-9780679738015","title":"Shah of Shahs","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a participant.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShah of Shahs\u003c\/i\u003e Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's  virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous  of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into  \"a second America in a generation,\" only to be toppled virtually overnight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Translated from the  Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.\"A book of great economy and power...with vivid imagery, a breathless way of writing  that carries the reader along, and a supreme sense of the absurd.\" —\u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Like Sir Richard Butron, Evelyn Waugh and Mungo Park, [Kapuscinski] makes literature  out of journalism.\" —\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Insightful and important.... A readable, timely and  valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in  Iran.... The reader almost becomes a participant.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A supercharged particle of a book.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRyszard Kapuscinski\u003c\/b\u003e, Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eImperium, Another Day of Life, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Soccer War\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into 28 languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301115678949,"sku":"NP9780679738015","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679738015.jpg?v=1767736441","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/shah-of-shahs-isbn-9780679738015","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}