Patriot of Persia Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup

Name: Patriot of Persia Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup
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ISBN: 9780061844713

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Authors: Christopher de Bellaigue

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On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against a cussed, bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, and his crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize his country's oil industry, which for forty years had been in British hands. To Winston Churchill, the Iranian prime minister was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Dwight Eisenhower, he was delivering Iran to the Soviets. Mossadegh must go.And so he did, in one of the most dramatic episodes in modern Middle Eastern history. But the countries that overthrew him would, in time, deeply regret their decision. Mossadegh…

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/21/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in 1971. He studied at Cambridge and writes for Granta and the New York Review of Books. He is married and lives in Iran.



Acknowledgements


Prologue: Father of the Nation



The Unchanging East



A Silver Spoon



Fokoli



Razing Caesarea



Eclipse of the Qajars



Isolation



The Tragedy of Khadijeh



The Prize



Victory or Death



Mossadeghism



Winning America



Riding Satan's Donkey



A Coup of his Own



Mussy Duck Shoot



Unperson


Epilogue: A Movement in Men's Minds


Notes


Bibliography


Illustrations


Index