What was Iran Like Before the Coup?

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Primary Sources

Clement Attlee, As it Happened, (1954)

Dean Acheson, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, (1969)

Harry S. Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, 1945: Year of Decisions, (1955)

Harry S. Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, 1946-52: Years of Trial and Hope, (1955)

Edt. Robert H. Ferrell, Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman, (1980)

Anthony Eden, The Memoirs of Anthony Eden: Full Circle, (1960)

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Answer to History, (1980)

Secondary Sources

Barry Rubin, Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience in Iran, (1980)

Douglas Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945, (2002)

Stephen Kinzer, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, (2008)

George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776, (2008)

Michael Axworthy, A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind, (2008)

Robert Baer, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower, (2008)

Darioush Bayandor, Iran and the CIA: The Fall of Mosaddeq Revisited, (2010)

Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, (2011)

Michael Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: American in the Middle East 1776 to the Present, (2011)

Abbas Amant, Iran: A Modern History, (2017)

Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran: Revised and Updated, (2018)

Footnotes

[1] Baer, p. 238-40

[2] Axworthy, p. 185-201

[3] Kinzer, p. 30-8, Axworthy, p. 206-10

[4] Axworthy, p. 206-18

[5] Axworthy, p. 192-7

[6] Yergin, p. 118-9, 122

[7] Yergin, p. 123-33, Kinzer, p. 48-53

[8] Little, p. 45-7, Axworthy, p. 212-8

[9] Kinzer, p. 38-42, Axworthy, p. 218-20

[10] Axworthy, p. 222-7

[11] Kinzer, p. 48-53, Eden, p. 212-3

[12] Yergin, p. 138-47, Kinzer, p. 48-53

[13] Amant, p. 493-9

[14] Kinzer, p. 42-5, Pahlavi, p. 66-9

[15] Axworthy, p. 227-33, Bayandor, p. 16-8, Abrahamian, Modern, p. 100-3

[16] Amant, p. 506-9, Oren, p. 458-60

[17] Pahlavi, p. 69-71, Abrahamian, Modern, p. 100-3, Amant, p. 503-6, Axworthy, p. 227-33

[18] Axworthy, p. 227-33, Pahlavi, p. 71-3

[19] Kinzer, p. 63-6, Abrahamian, Modern, p. 110-6, Bayandor, p. 13-6, Amant, p. 506-9

[20] Pahlavi, p. 73-4

[21] Herring, p. 600-1

[22] Truman, Decisions, p. 522-3, Acheson, p. 196-8, Rubin, p. 29-31

[23] Pahlavi, p. 74-7

[24] Truman, Trial, p. 93-5

[25] Rubin, p. 29-31, Yergin, p. 402-4

[26] Amant, p. 509-16, Rubin, p. 31-6, Bayandor, p. 13-6

[27] Bayandor, p. 13-6, Amant, p. 509-16, Abrahamian, Modern, p. 110-6

[28] Rubin, p. 31-6

[29] Amant, p. 516-9, Bayandor, p. 13-6, Rubin, p. 31-6, Kinzer, p. 48-53

[30] Rubin, p. 39-42, Bayandor, p. 13-22

[31] Pahlavi, p. 81-3, Rubin, p. 44-7

[32] Kinzer, p. 66-73, Acheson, 501-2, Rubin, 36-9, 49-51

[33] Yergin, p. 433-5, Bayandor, p. 22-6

[34] Yergin, p. 433-5, Kinzer, p. 66-73

[35] Kinzer, p. 53-61, Pahlavi, p. 69-71

[36] Rubin, p. 58-61

[37] Amant, p. 522-8, Bayandor, p. 27-9

[38] Bayandor, p. 22-6, Rubin, p. 47-9

[39] Yergin, p. 435-7

[40] Bayandor, p. 27-9, Yergin, p. 435-7

[41] Acheson, p. 503, Eden, p. 215-7

[42] Amant, p. 522-8, Kinzer, p. 79-80

[43] Bayandor, p. 29-30

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