All The Shah's Men

By Stephen Kinzer

Published by Wiley, January 08

The national bestseller about America and Iran - now with new material on the coming showdown...

This new edition of All The Shah's Men - the bestseller chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and the Economist - begins with a powerful new essay that warns against an American attack on Iran. As the drumbeat of threats against Iran intensifies in Washington, Kinzer argues that they are based on fantasies that are as dangerous as they are delusional. Any attack, he warns, would usher in another era of upheaval in Iran and the surrounding region, this time with the overlay of nuclear-tinged terror...

There is more fertile ground for democratic change in Iran than in almost any other Muslim country, and Kinzer presents an alternate strategy for dealing with the burgeoning crisis there. "As militants in Washington urge a second American attack on Iran, the story of the first one becomes more urgently relevant than ever," Kinzer writes in his new essay. "It shows the folly of using violence to try to reshape Iran."

"A very gripping read."-The New York Times

"An entirely engrossing, often riveting, nearly Homeric tale...For anyone with more than a passing interest in how the United States got into such a pickle in the Middle East, All the Shah's Men is as good as Grisham."-The Washington Post Book World

About the author
Stephen Kinzer (Oak Park, IL) is the bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.  As an award-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, he reported from more than fifty countries on four continents and served as the paper’s bureau chief in Turkey, Germany, and Nicaragua.

Paperback; £7.99/11.30 EUR; ISBN: 978-0-470-18549-0

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