As Iran's nuclear program accelerates, all eyes are on the blacksmith's son who could have his finger on the trigger. Who is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What drives him? To whom, if anyone, does he answer? Internationally acclaimed Iranian journalist Kasra Naji has spent years interviewing Ahmadinejad's friends, family, and colleagues to tell for the first time the true story of how he came to power. What emerges in this riveting account, featuring never before published color photographs, is a picture of a man who is much more of a force to be reckoned with than the caricatures offered up so far suggest. While Naji documents Ahmadinejad's often strange behavior, he also shows him to be full of complex contradictions: a man gripped by apocalyptic beliefs, yet capable of switching spiritual allegiance in the quest for power. A man tough enough to fight street battles in the name of Ayatollah Khomeini, crude enough to invite the German chancellor to join him in an anti-Jewish alliance, yet sophisticated enough to win the support of the all-powerful Revolutionary Guard. Kasra Naji takes us inside the shadowy council chambers of Tehran, and shows us the plots, passions, and personalities that will influence Ahmadinejad's next move, while the world waits with bated breath.
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"A critical and revealing biography of Iran's controversial president."--New York Review of Books
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"An excellent biography, one that is lively and informative, and at the same time sets the President in his international and domestic contexts. In so doing, Naji provides a most informative portrait of Iran today, and of the many, conflicting, forces that are at play within it."--Fred Halliday, author of 100 Myths about the Middle East
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This review is from: Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader (Hardcover)
This is not a detailed biography with ins and outs of Ahmadi-nejad's entire personal life story up to now, if you want to read a biography of Ahmadi-nejad you may have to wait until something like that is written some time in the future. However, if you want to be updated with a factual account of what is going on in Iran now and who runs the Islamic Republic, reading this book is a must!
It is one of the best explanations I have read in English on what Islamic Republic elections are about .... http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2008/09/ahmadinejad-by-kasra-naji.html
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A great introduction,
This review is from: Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader (Hardcover)
This work was a great introduction into the known life of Iran's Ahmadinejad. This was my first book on the subject and once I finished the reading I felt that I knew that much more about Iran's leader that is under much scrutiny from other world powers. If anyone wants to gain insight into present day Iran and Ahmadinejad, this book is a must. The book was well written and presented clearly. You'll not only learn about Ahmadinejad, but also of those that helped shape his political ideas. The title is relatively cheap compared to some of the other books available on the subject and is a very interesting read.
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Grade : A +++ - Excellent - Highly Recommended,
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Don't be fooled by the cover.
This is the best biography of AM to date. It is an excellent political and electoral biography of AM's rise to power and how this President and the ruling clerical elite manage the entire government and political economy of Iran - at all levels - local to national. This management style is akin to the Soviet management style in post Stalinism with the predictable economic results.In many ways the look and economic ambience of Iran is like the Soviet Union in the 1970s. Iran's top economic managemers are clerics, the National Sales Manger is their controlled man - AM - and the middle managers who execute economic policy are Paramilitary forces with little restraint as recent events have shown. The result is anger at injustice and the great cycle of Iranian revolution is underway again. A poodle named AM who is sitting on the lid of a boiling pot as the Shah was in 1964. Who knows how long it takes for a pot to boil over? Unknown But the pot will boil over and when it does ... it will burn many people as it did in 1905 and 1979.
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