All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

By Stephen Kinzer

Categories: History

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003) is a history by Stephen Kinzer. Kinzer recounts the 1953 CIA- and MI6-backed coup that overthrew Iran's democratically chosen Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restored the shah. He traces how that intervention shaped Iranian politics, anti-American feeling and U.S. policy in the region for decades.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “My book of the week is Stephen Kinzer's "All the Shah's Men" As the Trump Administration keeps up the pressure on Iran and many wonder whether it's goal, it's regime change here is a superb gripping account of the 1953 CIA sponsored coup in Iran against the democratically elected leader there and how so much bad blood has flown from that original American effort at regime change.”