CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chronology
Part 1: Of Things Past
1. Roses and Nightingales
2. Land of Fars
3. Dream City
4. A New World
5. Love and Politics
6. Homecoming
7. Age of Innocence
8. Spellbound
9. Our House
10. A False Stability
11. Gathering Storm
12. Uneasy Summer
13. Writing on the Wall
14. End of an Era
15. Revolution!
16. Farewell Youth
Part 2: Exile
17. Displaced
18. Café de la Paix
19. After Khomeini
20. Reunion
21. The Shah’s Ghost
Part 3: Witnesses and Survivors
22. Past Errors
23. Whirlwind
24. Night of the Generals
25. Sentimental Journey
26. Father and Son
27. Soraya
28. Persepolis Revisited
29. Ex-Ambassador
30. No Regrets
31. Palace Witnesses
32. Master of Ceremonies
33. Security of the Realm
34. The Diplomat
35. The General’s Widow
36. Khosrowdad
37. Blue Eyes
38. Hoveyda’s End
39. The Last Empress
Epilogue
Sources and Bibliography
Photographic Credits
