King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation
(2025)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW HISTORY
SR CENTER/NONFICTION/ANDERSON,S
SR CENTER/NONFICTION/ANDERSON,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Doubleday, 2025
EDITION
First Doubleday hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xxiii, 481 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385548076, 0385548079 :, 0385548079, 9780593315668, 0593315669, 9780385548076
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The Courtier -- The Queen -- A Tense, Taut Little Boy -- Gold Rush -- The Emperor in His Labyrinth -- A Delightful Meeting -- The Butterfly Effect -- The Unholy Alliance -- A Deceiving Peacefulness -- A Hall of Burnt Bones -- Black Friday -- A King Flying Kites -- A Most Dangerous Secret -- The Walls Close -- A Supreme Leader in Waiting -- Option C -- "Destroying All Classified" -- Putting on the Same Boots -- A Most Delicate Dance
"A stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism"--