The Struggle for Iran

David S. Painter is associate professor emeritus of international history at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Cold War: An International History and Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941–1954.
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Gregory Brew is a Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow at International Security Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.
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"David Painter and Gregory Brew’s new book, The Struggle for Iran, draws out the twists and turns and competing interests involved . . . meticulous."—Socialist Worker

"A deeply researched book . . . . The authors are meticulous and fair-minded in their assessment of the bewildering negotiations that tried to resolve the dispute."—Ray Takeyh, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy

"Painter and Brew are to be commended for producing a thorough historical account that draws on a plethora of sources and adds considerably to the extant historiography. Their book deserves a wide readership."—Diplomatic History

“The definitive account of the anti-Mossadeq coup. . . . [A] gripping story about Anglo-American imperialism, resource nationalism, and the fate of Iranian democracy. This is the most complete study yet published of America’s regime change in Tehran.” —Nathan Citino, author of Envisioning the Arab Future: Modernization in U.S.-Arab Relations, 1945–1967

"A beautifully researched and definitive account of one of the Cold War’s most important crises. The scholarship is superbly presented. This will be a book that garners much attention in the fields of U.S. foreign relations history, security studies, Iranian studies, Middle Eastern history, and the history of capitalism."—Chris Dietrich, author of Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights, and the Economic Culture of Decolonization