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Understanding Iran

William R. Polk provides an informative, history of a country which is moving quickly toward becoming the dominant power and culture of the Middle East.


Author:

  • William R. Polk

Narrator:

  • Paul Boehmer

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 12 h 30 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • History
  • Middle east
  • Society and Social Sciences
  • Politics

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    William R. Polk

    William R. Polk, the author of Understanding Iraq, taught at Harvard until becoming the member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council responsible for the Middle East in 1961. He served as head of the interdepartmental task force on the Algerian war and was a member of the crisis management subcommittee during the Cuban missile crisis. After leaving government, he became professor of history at the University of Chicago and president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs.

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