Volume 35, Number 3 · March 3, 1988

Shah's Legacy

By William Shawcross
Iran and the West: A Critical Bibliography
by Cyrus Ghani

Kegan Paul International, 967 pp., $85.00

The Duke of Wellington observed, 'Persia has been much exposed to authors.' During the nine years since the Iranian revolution, over one hundred new books on Iran have been published in English alone and there are hundreds more in French, Iranian, and other languages. Not all of them are reliable. Persia, or Iran, arouses passions. Not quite as Vietnam did, but for a much longer period. For students of Iranian affairs Dr. Ghani's long book is, and will be, invaluable.



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