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The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader
University of California Press
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
312 pages
ISBN: 0520256638
EAN: 9780520256637
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
As Iran's nuclear program accelerates, all eyes are on the
blacksmith's son who could have his finger on the trigger.
Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What drives him? To whom, if
anyone, does he answer? Internationally acclaimed Iranian
journalist Kasra Naji has spent years interviewing
Ahmadinejad's friends, family, and colleagues to tell for
the first time the true story of how he came to power. What
emerges in this riveting account, featuring never before
published color photographs, is a picture of a man who is
much more of a force to be reckoned with than the
caricatures offered up so far suggest. While Naji documents
Ahmadinejad's often strange behavior, he also shows him to
be full of complex contradictions: a man gripped by
apocalyptic beliefs, yet capable of switching spiritual
allegiance in the quest for power. A man tough enough to
fight street battles in the name of Ayatollah Khomeini,
crude enough to invite the German chancellor to join him in
an anti-Jewish alliance, yet sophisticated enough to win the
support of the all-powerful Revolutionary Guard. Kasra Naji
takes us inside the shadowy council chambers of Tehran, and
shows us the plots, passions, and personalities that will
influence Ahmadinejad's next move, while the world waits
with bated breath.
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