A New York Times best-selling author offers a personal,
candid tour of the political and social landscape in Iran.
Hooman Majd offers a dramatic perspective on a country with
global ambitions, an elaborate political culture, and
enormous implications for world peace. Drawing on privileged
access to the Iranian power elite, Majd argues that despite
the violence of the disputed 2009 elections, a group of
influential ayatollahs—including a liberal, almost-secular
opposition—still believes in the Iranian republic; for them,
“green” represents not a revolution but a civil rights
movement, pushing the country inexorably toward democracy,
albeit a particular brand of “Islamic democracy.” With
witty, candid, and stylishly intelligent reporting, Majd,
himself the grandson of an esteemed ayatollah, introduces
top-level politicians and clerics as well as ordinary people
(even Jewish community leaders), all expressing pride for
their ancient heritage and fierce independence from the
West. In the tradition of Jon Lee Anderson’s The Fall of
Baghdad, The Ayatollahs’ Democracy is a powerful dispatch
from a country at a historic turning point.
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