Andrew Scott Cooper: "The Oil Kings"

Author Andrew Scott Cooper will discuss his new book The Oil Kings How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East, which chronicles the efforts of Henry Kissinger, throughout the Nixon and Ford administrations, to support the Shah of Iran as a bulwark against communism. Policies intended to stabilize the Shah’s regime, Cooper suggests, actually damaged the global economy, strengthened Saudi Arabia and ultimately helped accelerate the Shah’s downfall.