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All the Shah's Men : An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by Stephen Kinzer →Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time.
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The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves as a chilling lesson about the dangers of foreign intervention. " "In this book, veteran New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer gives the first full account of this fateful operation. His account is centered around an hour-by-hour reconstruction of the events of August 1953, and concludes with an assessment of the coup's "haunting and terrible legacy. ""--Jacket.
