Full name: Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution

Author: Nikki R. Keddie Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780300121056 0300121059

In this updated edition of Nikki Keddie’s Modern Iran—itself a substantially revised and expanded version of her classic work Roots of Revolution—the  author provides a new preface and a fully annotated and indexed epilogue, reviewing recent developments in Iran since 2003. Keddie provides insightful commentary on Iran’s nuclear and foreign policy, its relations with the United Nations and the United States, increasing conservative and hard-line tendencies in the government, and recent developments in the economy, cultural and intellectual life, and human rights.Reviews of the 2003 edition: “[An] essential book for one’s working library.”—L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs“Shifting her historical focus from the roots of the Iranian revolution to its consequences, Nikki Keddie has expanded her original classic to include a sharply probing and perceptive guide to more than two decades of tumultuous developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran.”—Gary Sick Similar books: The Last Great Revolution by Robin Wright The Iranians by Sandra Mackey Persian Mirrors by Elaine Sciolino The Persian Puzzle by Kenneth Pollack The Twilight War by David Crist Hidden Iran by Ray Takeyh Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski Iran by Michael Axworthy All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer The Devil We Know by Robert Baer Patriot of Persia by Christopher de Bellaigue A History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Bellaigue The Soul of Iran by Afshin Molavi Black Wave by Kim Ghattas