Please join Michal Prupas and Dr. Michael Shevell for the Ivry History Book Club inaugural event when we will discuss 
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation by Scott Anderson.

Please RSVP by July 19th (Please note attendance limited to first 12 registrants) and register here: https://www.timetosignup.com/lakemanitoucc/sheet/1386055/history-book-club

For more information please email: michael.shevell@mcgill.ca or mprupas@muse.ca

King of Kings was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2026 and selected as a notable/best book of 2025 by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Globe and Mail and Vanity Fair.
This spellbinding narrative by Scott Anderson is one of a pharaonic distant dictator oblivious to the disdain of his subjects and a superpower blundering repeatedly into disaster. The Shah emerges as a fascinating, Shakespearean character – a wannabe Richard III unaware of the depth of dissent to his rule, indecisive like Hamlet when action was called for, and at the end Lear-like as he raged against his fate. The United States government made terrible decisions at almost every juncture, despite reliable accurate ground level intelligence, that enabled the takeover of a modern advanced nation by a medieval theocracy that has had ruinous implications for the Middle East for the last half-century.

This book is readily available for purchase and delivery from Indigo or Amazon. Registered attendees commit to reading and discussing the book.