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 Africäs 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
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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
