PW Picks: Books of the Week, January 25, 2021
Jan 22, 2021 The books we love coming out this week include new titles from Ben Hopkins, David W. Brown, and Jeff Wheeler. John Ghazvinian. Knopf, $38.95 (688p) ISBN 978-0-307-27181-5 The hostility between the U.S. and Iran is a tragic lapse from a once-friendly relationship, according to this sweeping study. Historian Ghazvinian (coeditor, American and Muslim Worlds Before 1900) surveys American-Iranian relations back to colonial Americans’ support for Persia in conflicts with the Turks and Tehran’s perennial desire for closer ties to the U.S. as a counterweight against British an...
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