ISBN: 9780307430717

PEN/West Award Finalist        Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants     to . . . gain insig… Mehr…

PEN/West Award Finalist        Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants     to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and future, this book is a marvelous introduction.        --Fred Halliday, Los Angeles TimesIran was the first country in the Middle East to develop an oil industry, and oil has been central to its tumultuous twentieth-century history. A finalist for the PEN/West Award, Blood and Oil tells the epic inside story of the battle for Iranian oil. A prominent member of one of Iran's most powerful aristocratic families--so feared by Khomeini that the entire clan was blacklisted--Prince Manucher Farmanfarmaian was raised in a harem at the heart of Iran's imperial court. With wit and provocative detail, he describes the days when he served as the Shah's oil adviser and pioneered the partnership that resulted in OPEC. Beautifully written and epic in its scope, this scintillating memoir provides a fascinating history of modern Iran.        Distinguished by its political acumen, historical sense, and vividness of description and anecdote. It is also notable for a wry sense of humour. . . . Amid the euphoria about the development of the oilfields of Central Asia and the Transcaucasus, [its] lesson should be kept in mind.                                           --Anatol Lieven, Financial TimesA book of stunning beauty . . . One of the best accounts of the cultural and political life of modern Iran, it is exquisite and intimate, rendered with art-istry and detail.                                                                     --Fouad Ajami Digital Content>E-books>World History>Mideast,N Africa Hist>Mideast,N Africa Hist, Random House Publishing Group Digital >16<

ISBN: 9780307430717

Blood and Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah Blood-and-Oil~~Roxane-Farmanfarmaian World History>Mideast/N Africa Hist>Mideast/N Africa Hist NOOK Book (eBook), … Mehr…

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ISBN: 9780307430717

Blood & Oil - A Prince's Memoir of Iran from the Shah to the Ayatollah: ab 8.49 € Medien > Bücher > E-books, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf]

ISBN: 9780307430717

Blood & Oil ab 8.49 EURO A Prince's Memoir of Iran from the Shah to the Ayatollah Medien > Bücher, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf]