Review on All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer

Posted: November 26th, 2013

Your task is to write a formal book review of All the Shah’s Men.  As a reviewer, you must assume that your intended audience is unfamiliar with the time and place in which Kinzer’s story develops.  You should therefore familiarize the reader with these aspects of the book.  You should also…

1)    Explain the author’s intentions in writing this story about a seemingly obscure event that occurred more than 50 years ago in Iran.

2)    Explain how and why the central event in the story – the rise and fall of the Mossadegh government – was related to a) the rise of Third World nationalism and b) the Cold War and its effects on US foreign policy.