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

Name: The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution
ISBN: 9780934211611

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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.

Категории:

Biography & Autobiography - Political

Год:

2000

Издание:

Second Printing

Издательство:

Mage Pub

Язык:

english

Страницы:

399