The Oil Kings

Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Ford (hoping to secure his re-election), helping to precipitate the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Andrew Scott Cooper reveals the fatal struggle between the oil kingsA", both Middle-Eastern and American, as they jockeyed for power, playing games that led directly to the rise of Iran's radical anti-American theocracy, which still exists today. An intrepid investigative reporter, Andrew Scott Cooper is the first to access newly declassified papers, and to interview key people who formulated US foreign poilicy in that period. Carefully connecting up the dots, he brilliantly reconstructs the history of that vexed decade when the modern world was changed forever.

ISBN	1851689389	DEWEY edition	DC23
ISBN13	9781851689385 (What's this?)	Pages	552
Publisher	Oneworld Publications	Published in	London
Imprint	Oneworld Publications	Height (mm)	198
Format	Paperback	Width (mm)	129
Publication date	01 May 2012	Academic level	General
DEWEY	327.73055

"[Cooper] skillfully mines previously classified documents to make clear that high-profile inmates were running the foreign-policy asylum."

--Paul Jablow, "Philadelphia Inquirer"

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