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The Crisis
David Harris
其他書名
The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-- 1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam
出版
Little, Brown and Company
, 2004
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
History / General
History / Middle East / General
History / Military / United States
History / United States / 20th Century
Political Science / General
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / American Government / General
Political Science / World / Middle Eastern
Religion / Religion, Politics & State
ISBN
0316323942
9780316323949
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=A78KH9mZheUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"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.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved