The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Central Asian Heartland, and All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

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Reviewer: David Nalle
Reviewer Title: Editor (ret.), Central Asia Monitor
Publishing Info: The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Central Asian Heartland, Karl E. Meyer. New York: Century Foundation, 2003. Notes, bibliography and index. 252 pages. $18.20, paperback.

All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Stephen Kinzer. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003. Notes, bibliography and index. 258 pages. $17.47, paperback.

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