The Last Shah : Yale University Press : 9780300264654 : 0300264658 : 01 Mar 2022 : The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries "An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."?Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal "An extraordinary account. . . . Deeply nuanced and eloquent."?Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post  Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on the throne in 1941 to the 1979 revolution that brought the present Islamist government to power. This revolution was not, as many believe, the popular overthrow of a powerful and ruthless puppet of the United States; rather, it followed decades of corrosion of Iran's political establishment by an autocratic ruler wh