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Description: Scott Anderson is one of America’s most respected journalists and historians of the modern Middle East. A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, he is the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia and The Quiet Americans. He was our featured guest Monday, and more than 60 readers joined the conversation.His new book, King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution — A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, tells the story of how Iran went from a close U.S. ally under the Shah to the Islamic Republic we know today — a rupture that still shapes...