America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
Brand: Audible
<p>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of the Year</p> <p><b>A hugely ambitious,</b> <b>“delightfully readable, genuinely informative”</b> <b>portrait (</b><b><i>The New York Times)</i></b><b> of the two-centuries-long entwined histories of Iran and America - two powers who were once allies and now adversaries - by an admired historian and former journalist.</b></p> <p>In this rich, fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between these two nations back to the Persian Empire of the 18th century - the subject of great admiration by Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams - and an America seen by Iranians as an ideal to emulate for their own government.</p> <p>Drawing on years of archival research both in the United States and Iran - including access to Iranian government archives rarely available to Western scholars - the Iranian-born, Oxford-educated historian leads us through the four seasons of US-Iran relations: the spring of mutual fascination; the summer of early interactions; the autumn of close strategic ties; and the long, dark winter of mutual hatred. Ghazvinian makes clear where, how, and when it all went wrong. <i>America and Iran </i>shows why two countries that once had such heartfelt admiration for each other became such committed enemies - and why it didn’t have to turn out this way.</p>