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Reviewed on January 1, 2011
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran as its hereditary, divine monarch for almost 40 years before he was driven from the throne by the 1979 popular revolution. Milani (research fellow, Hoover Inst., Stanford Univ.), an Iranian exile jailed by the Shah in the 1970s, has written a clear, detailed biography explaining the personal and family characteristics that shaped the Shah's approach to governing. Acknowledging but not following the constitutional character of the governm...Log In or Sign Up to Read More