Taken Hostage
Subtitle: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780691119168
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; International relations; c 1970 to c 1980; International Relations - General; United States; History; History - General History; Middle East - General; History: World; Iran; USA; Middle East - Iran; Religion, Politics & State; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); American History; History / United States / 20th Century; Middle Eastern Studies; Political Science and International Relations; General; 1977-1981; Foreign relations; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Islam and politics
First sentence: To burn or not to burn, that was the question.