TY - JOUR
AU - Goode, James
AB - FEATURE REVIEW The United States and the Shah: Checkmating the Opposition JAMES GOODE Mark J. Gasiorowski. US. Foreign Policy and the Shah: Building a Client State in Iran. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. xvi + 228 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $35.00. The world turned upside down in Iran well over a decade ago, and although the Iranian Revolution is fast becoming history, there is only a moderate slackening in the flow of publications on the subject. Thus far we have a bewildering array of interpretations, ranging from Said Amir Arjomand’s Turban for the Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, which emphasizes internal developments and assures us that American intelligence failures and disagreements among U.S. policymakers in 1978 “did not matter” because only a miracle could have saved the shah, to Marvin Zonis’s recent Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, which argues that as late as November 1978 “there was still opportunity to reassert the Shah’s control over the fate of his nation. . . . The United States had one last opportunity to restore the Shah to a level of functioning which would have allowed him . . . to have retained his throne.”’ Scholars disagree fundamentally over 
TI - The United States and the Shah: Checkmating the Opposition
JF - Diplomatic History
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-7709.1993.tb00607.x
DA - 1993-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-united-states-and-the-shah-checkmating-the-opposition-VniPNMtVjT
SP - 645
EP - 650
VL - 17
IS - 4
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