The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty

The surprising story of Iran’s transformation from America’s ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries.

Offering a new view of one of America’s most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power.