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"A quarter century ago, a group of Iranian students swept into the United States embassy in Tehran, overpowering the Americans there and taking them hostage. The crisis that ensued would last for 444 days." "Now for the first time, drawing on unprecedented interviews with American, Iranian, and European participants, acclaimed historian David Harris tells the full story of those 444 days. At the center of it were three men who had come to power as outsiders and who were driven by a sense of divine right: the Shah of Iran, President Jimmy Carter, and Ayatollah Khomeini. But this is not just a story of presidents and rulers; it is the story of hundreds of other people who played essential roles, including CIA agents, Iranian dissidents, White House officials, enigmatic French intermediaries. Special Forces operatives, Panamanian strongmen, and of course the hostages themselves." "This is a story that could not have been told until now. The Crisis utilizes groundbreaking discussions with American leaders from Carter on down, as well as previously classified documents and interviews with people in Europe and Iran who had never spoken in detail about their experiences during the hostage-taking. Harris's narrative races from Washington to Tehran to Paris to Panama, tracking a dying shah, a flailing Carter, an ascending Khomeini, the disastrous Desert One rescue attempt, and the lives of the Americans held in blindfolds amid a revolution like none other."--BOOK JACKET.
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The crisis: the president, the prophet, and the Shah-- 1979 and the coming of militant Islam
2004, Little, Brown and Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0316323942 9780316323949
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