The Crisis
Subtitle: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah-1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: October 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780316323949
Subjects: U.S. Foreign Relations; U.S. History - 1980s; History; Politics / Current Events; History: American; Government - U.S. Government; History & Theory - General; International Relations - General; Political Science / General; United States - 20th Century; 1977-1981; Foreign relations; Iran; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Islam and politics; United States
First sentence: FOR THE AMERICANS, OF COURSE, IT ALL BEGAN with the shah of Iran, the "best friend" the United States had on the Persian Gulf in those days.