Patriot of Persia by Christopher De Bellaigue
On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh and his crimes had been to flirt with Communism and nationalise his country's oil industry, for forty years in British hands. This title reveals life of a remarkable patriot.
[It] is about a wildly popular figure who promised Iran's future would not be dependent on paying homage to the west: Mohammed Mossadegh, who was brutally removed from power in a coup orchestrated by the CIA in 1953De Bellaigue is an outstanding journalist and you can tell why -- Peter Frankopan * History Today *
De Bellaigue’s book is unsurpassed as a rounded portrait of Mossadegh -- Roger Louis * Times Literary Supplement *
De Bellaigue portrays some fascinating, and often farcical, stories of political life in Iran * Independent *
A rich and timely immersion -- David Gardner * Financial Times *
Compelling -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *
De Bellaigue’s book is unsurpassed as a rounded portrait of Mossadegh -- Roger Louis * Times Literary Supplement *
De Bellaigue portrays some fascinating, and often farcical, stories of political life in Iran * Independent *
A rich and timely immersion -- David Gardner * Financial Times *
Compelling -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *
Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Iranian and Indian Studies. Between 1996 and 2007, he lived and worked as a journalist in south Asia and the Middle East, writing for The Economist, the Financial Times, the Independent and the New York Review of Books. He and his Iranian wife, the artist Bita Ghezelayagh, returned from Tehran to the UK in 2007 so that de Bellaigue could take up a fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford. They now divide their time between London and Tehran.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847921086 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847921086 |
| Title | Patriot of Persia |
| Author | Christopher De Bellaigue |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of Washington Institute Book Prize: Bronze 2012 (United States) |
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