عنوان

The fall of heaven :

(Number (ISBN

0805098976

(Number (ISBN

0805098984

(Number (ISBN

9780805098976

(Number (ISBN

9780805098983

Title Proper

The fall of heaven :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Pahlavis and the final days of imperial Iran /

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrew Scott Cooper.

Edition Statement

First edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Henry Holt and Company,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 587 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color), map ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-565) and index.

Text of Note

People -- Events of the 1978-1979 revolution -- Looking for rain : Introduction: Back to Cairo ; The Shah ; Crown and kingdom ; The Old Lion ; Farah Diba ; The Ayatollah ; "Javid shah!" ; Royals and rebels ; The camp of gold cloth ; The Pahlavi progress ; Emperor of oil ; The turning ; Thirsty for martyrdom ; Last days of Pompeii -- Farewell the Shah : Lights over Niavaran ; The caravan passes ; Five days in May ; Into the storm ; Ramadan rising ; The Great Terror ; Black Friday ; State of siege ; Tehran is burning ; Sullivan's folly ; Swept away ; Flight of the eagle.

0

Text of Note

"An immersive, sweeping 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 twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven re-creates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East."--

Text of Note

"In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East"--

Farah,1938-

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,1919-1980.

Farah,1938-

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,1919-1980.

HISTORY-- Middle East-- General.

HISTORY-- Modern-- General.

HISTORY-- Revolutionary.

Iran, History, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.

Iran.

0

7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Cooper, Andrew Scott

Date of Transaction

20200822132036.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y