Andrew Scott Cooper - The Fall Of Heaven

A gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s Pahlavi Dynasty. Written with the cooperation of the Shah’s family, Islamic Revolutionaries, and former U.S officials.

Recent instability in the Middle East had led Iranians and scholars to reexamine infamous legacy of the last Emperor of Iran. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi has been widely denounced as a brutal and corrupt dictator, but he arguably launched Iran onto the world stage as a modern state. In the deeply human portrait, Andrew Scott Cooper illuminated on one of the twentieth century’s most complicated personalities.

The Fall of Heaven gives us exclusive access to the Shah’s widow, Empress Farah, and other members of the Pahlavi family, as well as the men who deposed them - namely Iran’s first president, Abolhassan Banisadr. Set alongside first-person remembrances of White House officals, American diplomats, and civilians in Tehran to the back alleys of Beirut, where Islamist revolutionaries plotted the regime’s overthrow. Both epic and intimate, The Fall of Heaven re-creates the final days of Iran’s last ruling family, the deposition of which still affects the Middle East today.