[_el]

A great book on this topic is "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer.

[edbaskerville]

Kinzer also wrote an interesting little book in 2010 (Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future) about how Turkey and Iran-with-a-very-different-government could be naturally aligned with the-United-States-when-not-captured-by-hawks. It looks hopelessly naive at the moment, but it's still a great primer on the entangled history of the three countries.

[oxymoron]

I liked it a lot, although I’ve later found the depiction of the Eisenhower administration a bit simplistic. Another good and fun read on that is Evans’ _Ike’s bluff_, which paints a more detailed picture on John Foster Dulles in particular.

[082349872349872]

All the Dulles siblings are interesting in their own ways.

[0x262d]

Yes, I second this. That was an absolutely critical read for me.

As an aside, All The King's Men and All The President's Men are books I recommend too.

[teh_klev]

Yes, can confirm this too. It was quite an eye opener when I read it and goes a long way to explaining Iran's relationship with the US and the west.

[ghostpepper]

This book is excellent, if a bit dense. There were many, many players involved in the coup.

Kinzer is also interviewed in Coup 53.

[AndrewBissell]

It's not included in the written summary but the NPR audio segment includes some commentary by Kinzer about how exploitative the British oil extraction deals with Iran were.