The Struggle for Iran

David S. Painter is associate professor emeritus of international history at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Cold War: An International History and Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941-1954. Gregory Brew is a Henry A. Kissinger Postdoctoral Fellow at International Security Studies and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.

"All readers should agree that [The Struggle for Iran] provides a nuanced understanding of the 1953 coup and its bitter legacy."--Journal of American History "David S. Painter and Gregory Brew have done historians a great service by bringing together their collective research into one volume. . . . [They] have written a smart and well-organized book that occupies a unique place among 'diplomatic' histories on the Iranian oil crisis of the early 1950s."--American Historical Review "A deeply researched book . . . . The authors are meticulous and fair-minded in their assessment of the bewildering negotiations that tried to resolve the dispute."--Ray Takeyh, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy "David Painter and Gregory Brew's new book, The Struggle for Iran, draws out the twists and turns and competing interests involved . . . meticulous."--Socialist Worker "Painter and Brew are to be commended for producing a thorough historical account that draws on a plethora of sources and adds considerably to the extant historiography. Their book deserves a wide readership."--Diplomatic History