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100 1 $aHarris, David,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50024681
245 14 $aThe crisis :$bthe president, the prophet, and the Shah-- 1979 and the coming of militant Islam /$cDavid Harris.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Co.,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a470 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 447-461) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tCommencement -- $gPt. 2.$tDownfall -- $gPt. 3.$tRevolution -- $gPt. 4.$tCrisis -- $gPt. 5.$tCrescendo -- $gPt. 6.$tEndgame.
520 1 $a"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.
650 0 $aIran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067917
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zIran.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140112
651 0 $aIran$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067894
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1977-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140104
650 0 $aIslam and politics$zIran.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104776
600 10 $aKhomeini, Ruhollah.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79119039
651 0 $aIran$xPolitics and government$y1979-1997.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067913
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