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| Author | Andrew Scott Cooper |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Contemporary history, biography |
| Publisher | Henry Holt and Co. |
Publication date | August 2, 2016 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 608 |
| ISBN | 9780805098976 |
| OCLC | 922169321 |
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran is a 2016 book by Andrew Scott Cooper. It documents the Pahlavi family and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.
Cooper stated that the person who succeeded Pahlavi as Iran's ruler, Ruhollah Khomeini, unfairly tainted Pahlavi's image and that the shah was a "benevolent autocrat".[1] The book's primary audience is the lay public rather than academics.[2] Cooper stated that The Fall of Heaven "is not intended as the final word on Mohammad Reza Shah or the 1979 revolution—far from it".[3]
- ^ Chan, Charmaine (2016-09-02). "Book review: a revisionist take on the last shah of Iran". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
- ^ Alvandi, p. 155.
- ^ Alvandi, p. 156.