The American Task in Persia/Millspaugh/1925/HB

Description: The American Task in Persia / by A. C. Millspaugh / The Century Co. / 1925. This book is hard to find. There are recent reprints online, but I can't find this original volume anywhere online for sale to gauge its value. Good condition for its age, but it has a small stain at the bottom of many pages. This volume is inscribed (as a presentation gift?) at the front not by this volume's author, Millspaugh, but by "Your Persian friend, S.K. Nweeya of Urmia City". Samuel K. Nweeya was the author of Persia: The Land of the Magi (1910). (Please see photos). From Wikipedia: "(Millspaugh) was a former adviser at the U.S. State Department's Office of the Foreign Trade, who was hired to re-organize the Finance Ministry of Iran from 1922–1927 ... Discussing Iran’s shattered economy, Millspaugh’s book sympathetically portrayed Iran and Iranians, but heaped criticism on the Iranian bureaucracy. "The American task in Persia" was highly influential in shaping American political opinion towards Iran. Commentaries on Iran appearing in American foreign policy journals, such as Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy Reports, or in leading journals such as Time magazine, frequently relied on Millspaugh’s accounts as a principal source."

Price: 165 USD

Location: Flagstaff, Arizona

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