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A must-read for anyone who wants to be able to put current events into perspective (4.5 stars)
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror was a terrific book - a detailed and well-balanced historical non-fiction that at times reads like a spy thriller and throughout made me unbelievably angry and sad. Stephen Kinzer does a wonderful job of taking you behind the scenes of Mossadegh's overthrow and includes information from all the key players. He provides an enlighten ...more
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror was a terrific book - a detailed and well-balanced historical non-fiction that at times reads like a spy thriller and throughout made me unbelievably angry and sad. Stephen Kinzer does a wonderful job of taking you behind the scenes of Mossadegh's overthrow and includes information from all the key players. He provides an enlighten ...more
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this historical look at the events leading up to and surrounding the coup/overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh's Iranian government in 1953, engineered by the CIA. The book does an excellent job, I think, of showing how the British Iranian Oil Company--precursor to British Petroleum (BP)--was intricately involved & heavily responsible for the events that finally transpired in the coup d'etat on Aug 19, 1953. The unending pressure from the British, in response to Mossadegh n
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Jul 12, 2025
Mamin
marked it as to-read
