The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran

“Riveting . . . This thorough work is immensely detailed yet readable and continuously engaging.” —Publishers Weekly

An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration.

In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper trace...