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