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To: LindyBill who wrote (8176)	9/16/2003 10:52:54 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 793790

The Iran Conspiracy By H. D. S. Greenway All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer - New York Review of Books Wiley, 258 pp., $24.95 As you know, I read the book and recommend it. Highly. This review is more summary of the argument than evaluation of the book. I thought the reportial part of the book was extremeley well done--the sort of here's the documents and here's the story. Kinzer tells it well, keeps you reading. And you know something about that period when your finished with the book that you didn't know before. The part this reviewer emphasizes, the connection to the unintended consequences--the CIA contretemps in Guatemale, Chile, and on the down the line; the hatred for the US created in Iran and then on to 9-11--is more stipulated than demonstrated. It's definitely not a reach but it would require another book (or two). The part I wished there had been more of is connected to this absence above, which is the David Halberstam context setting, journalistic analysis of the whys and wherefores. With that it would have been an irreplaceable book.