John Ghazvinian is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Iran, raised in London and Los Angeles, and has a doctorate in history from the University of Oxford. He is the author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil and he has written for the Sunday Times, New Statesman, Slate and The Nation. He lives in Philadelphia.
Introduction
Part I: Spring
1 East of Eden
2 Tashrifat
3 The Amateurs
4 The Professionals
5 The Man from Manila
6 War and Peace
Part II: Summer
7 "The Sordid Side"
8 The Warrior-King
9 Hello Johnny
10 Tehran Spring
11 "One Penny More"
12 The Liberty Bell and the Wool Pajamas
13 1953
Part III: Autumn
14 "Yes" and "Yes, Sir"
15 You Say You Want a Revolution?
16 This Turbulent Priest
17 The Final Emperor
18 The Unthinkable
Part IV: Winter
19 1979 309
20 Dulce et Decorum Est
21 Goodwill Hunting
22 The First Hopey-Changey Moment
23 That September Day
24 The Moral Cold War
25 Atoms for Peace?
26 Designed to Fail
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Archival sources
Notes
Index
Illustration credits
