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Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader

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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

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.

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.

If you are interested in learning more about humanity's latest-and-greatest loony tune to jump onto the world stage, this book is for you! Kasra Naji does an excellent job of describing the background, influences on and maniacal mindset of the man who has become the U.N. General Assembly's annual showman and entertainer (beating out Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and the old-timer Fidel Castro, who hasn't attended UNGA in years). More important - and more frightening than Dr. Ahmadinejad himself - is the context in which Ahmadinejad operates: he is not a soloist on stage, but rather one of several nut-jobs in the Iranian political establishment currently running the government.

If there ever is a reason for Americans to sleep with one eye open these days, wondering "what next?" after Iraq and Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad and Co. is it. A must-read for all those who think they know about international affairs, conflict resolution and negotiation; leadership studies and charisma.