Join us as historian and author Andrew Scott Cooper gives an immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah’s widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries, and U.S. officials from the Carter administration.

The Fall of Heaven presents a remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Cooper traces the Shah’s life from childhood, through his ascension to the throne in 1941, and into the dramatic and final days of one of the world’s most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.

Andrew Scott Cooper is an historian and commentator on U.S.-Iran relations, global energy markets, and geopolitical risk. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Political Science. Cooper is also the author of The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East. His research has been published in many news outlets including The Middle East Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian newspaper’s Tehran Bureau website.

Free Admission. Free Parking. Book sales/signing and reception follow program.