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LEADER: 01733cam a22002658a 4500
001 2008015848
003 DLC
005 20080429094600.0
008 080407s2009 cau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008015848
020 $a9780520253285 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780520253292 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $aa-ir---
050 00 $aDS318$b.A653 2009
082 00 $a955.05/3092$aB$222
100 1 $aAfkhami, Gholam R.
245 14 $aThe life and times of the Shah /$cGholam Reza Afkhami.
260 $aBerkeley, CA :$bUniversity of California Press,$c2009.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIllustrations -- Preface -- Notes on transliteration and translations -- Father and son -- The father -- The man -- Hard times -- Ascending the throne -- Azerbaijan -- Nationalizing oil -- Toward the Abyss -- Tpajax -- Securing the realm -- A new vista -- The white revolution -- Women and rights -- Mastering oil -- Commander-in-chief -- Development and dreams -- Gas, petrochemicals, and nuclear energy -- Revolution and irony -- Politics and terror -- Savak -- A celebration and a festival -- The Rastakhiz party -- The gathering storm -- "I heard the message of your revolution" -- "Melting like snow" -- Exile -- Trek to nowhere -- The Ayatollah's shadow -- Almost bartered -- Closing in a dream -- Brief chronology of the Pahlavi Dynasty -- Appendix 1 : Iran's prime ministers under the Shah -- Appendix 2 : principles of Iran's white revolution -- Appendix 3 : U.S. Ambassadors to Iran, 1941/1979.
600 00 $aMohammed Reza Pahlavi,$cShah of Iran,$d1919-1980.
651 0 $aIran$xHistory$yMohammed Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979.