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Reader recommendation: Let the Swords Encircle Me

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

By Beth Sale, San Diego, Calif. / July 16, 2013


I am reading Let the Swords Encircle Me by the Monitor's own Scott Peterson. In addition to being a marvelous history of Iran since the revolution, this book has also been a great tutorial for the recent Iranian election.

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