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In “War and Peace” (1869), Leo Tolstoy dismissed the great-man theory of the Napoleonic Wars. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Literature

Simplified: Leo Tolstoy dismissed the great-man theory of the Napoleonic Wars in War and Peace 1869

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The conservative writer Niall Ferguson credits his decision to become a historian to reading Tolstoy’s epilogue. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Literature

Simplified: Niall Ferguson credits his decision to become a historian to reading Tolstoy’s epilogue

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Ferguson, who has published a collection of counterfactual histories, is an outlier among academics. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Academia

Simplified: Ferguson is an outlier among academics

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Wars and revolutions might feel chaotic, but they happen for reasons rooted in economics, ideology, geography, and climate. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Wars and revolutions happen for reasons rooted in economics ideology geography and climate

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Any sense that history trends in a general direction—toward freedom, perhaps, or toward rights, markets, secularism, or science—is confounded by a large, prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-t... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Any sense that history trends in a general direction is confounded by a large prosperous country becoming a hard-line semi-theocracy

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The philosopher Michel Foucault relished the Iranian Revolution’s perversity: it was “perhaps the greatest ever insurrection against global systems, the most insane and the most modern form of revolt.... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Philosophy

Simplified: Michel Foucault relished the Iranian Revolution’s perversity it was perhaps the greatest ever insurrection against global systems the most insane and...

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Gary Sick, who oversaw Iranian affairs at the National Security Council under Carter, sees it similarly. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Gary Sick sees it similarly

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Carter took five months to select an Ambassador to Iran and another two to get him confirmed. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Carter took five months to select an Ambassador to Iran and another two to get him confirmed

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Carter had campaigned on human rights, which he described as “the soul of our foreign policy.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Carter had campaigned on human rights which he described as the soul of our foreign policy

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By the time Iran’s revolution was over, it had drawn in two million people, a greater proportion of the population than any previous twentieth-century revolution saw. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Iran’s revolution drew in two million people a greater proportion of the population than any previous twentieth-century revolution saw

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Anderson notes that his closest confidant, Asadollah Alam, had a firm grasp on popular grievances and the need to address them. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History , Politics

Simplified: Asadollah Alam had a firm grasp on popular grievances and the need to address them Anderson notes

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Farah relied for advice on his wife, Farah, whose knowledge of the situation wasn’t extensive. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Farah relied on his wife Farah for advice about the situation

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In May, 1978, long after the first unrest in Qom, Farah seemed not to have even heard of the ayatollah who was fomenting rebellion from Iraq. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History

Simplified: In May 1978 Farah seemed not to have heard of the ayatollah fomenting rebellion from Iraq

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“For heaven’s sake,” she reportedly asked, “who is this Khomeini?” 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Farah reportedly asked who is this Khomeini

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Unbeknownst to nearly everyone, the Shah also had cancer. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Health

Simplified: The Shah had cancer

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His haphazard directives combined the worst of both options: soldiers often let demonstrators march but occasionally shot up crowds, supplying fresh outrages that fuelled more protest. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Political

Simplified: The Shah's directives combined the worst of both options soldiers often let demonstrators march but occasionally shot up crowds

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Onlookers urged firmness. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Onlookers urged firmness

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“Shoot the first man in front,” the former governor of California, Ronald Reagan, advised. 0.950

👤 Ronald Reagan 📋 Book Review

Simplified: Ronald Reagan advised to shoot the first man in front

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“The rest will fall into line.” 0.900

👤 Ronald Reagan 📋 Book Review

Simplified: The rest will fall into line

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In a wonderfully rich account of the Pahlavi regime’s collapse, “The Fall of Heaven” (2016), Andrew Scott Cooper describes a telephone call that Iraq’s President, Saddam Hussein, placed to the Shah in... 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ History

Simplified: Andrew Scott Cooper describes a telephone call that Saddam Hussein placed to the Shah in August 1978 in The Fall of Heaven

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