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Iran: a tale of arrogance, self-delusion and unforced blunders

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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson is a spellbinding journalistic revelation of the innermost thinking and maneuvering of key players in Iran and the United States leading up to the 1979 American Embassy seizure of hostages that would change the course of world events. …

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A novel embedded in history, enriched by poetry

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There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak is a large book delicately woven by a metaphor: drop of water falls into the river, whose particles are borne to the sky and fall again to the earth as rain, only to repeat itself. The image speaks to continuing cycles of human experience, starting at …

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