Stephen Kinzer has written a great many books on US Foreign Policy during the Cold War focusing on the interventionist actions of the US Government. This subject naturally includes a significant amount of writing about Iran. All the Shah's Men (2003) provides a detailed summary of the Iranian Revolution as blowback. Kinzer's recent book: Reset: Iran, Turkey and America's Future (2010) recommends a significantly different course of action for US foreign policy in the Middle East. Kinzer outlines a brief history of Iran and Turkey over the last 100 years that, most importantly, provides a narrative to outline a different approach in the Middle East and the greater Muslim world. After two disastrous attempts at democracy from the barrel of a gun in Iraq and Afghanistan, US policymakers should take a long hard look at both Turkey and Iran as two Muslim nations that have been struggling to both modernize and create their own democratic structures and traditions amid difficult circumstances and a great deal of foreign intervention.
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