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The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution

By Abbas Milani

Book information

Publisher
Mage Pub
Year
2000
ISBN
0934211612, 9780934211611
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26443871 bytes)
Edition
Second Printing
Pages
399\408
Time added
2022-10-15 22:34:37

Description

Who lost Iran? How and why did a country, never richer, never more educated, its women never more liberated erupt in a fundamentalist revolution? The answer can be found in the enthralling life and tragic death of one man. Amir Abbas Hoveyda was a central figure in the historic struggle between modernity and tradition in Iran -- a struggle pitting Western cosmopolitanism against Persian isolationism, secularism against religious fundamentalism, and ultimately civil society and democracy against authoritarianism. The Persian Sphinx is biography at its most powerful and reads like a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy. It will reward the general reader and the scholar alike.

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