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050		4	_aE183.8.I55 _bF37 2006
082	0	4	_a955 _222 _bF219I
100	1		_aFarber, David R
245	1	0	_aTaken hostage : _bthe Iran hostage crisis and America's first encounter with radical Islam / _cDavid Farber
264		1	_aPrinceton, N.J. ; _aWoodstock : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2006]
264		4	_c©2005
300			_aviii, 212 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
440		0	_aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America
500			_aOriginally published: 2004
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [191]-204) and index
505	0		_aCrisis, chaos, and Jimmy Carter -- The Shah, Khomeini, and the "Great Satan" -- Takeover in Tehran -- Shaslik Nerg Bessawari Azerbaiyan or "The red blindfold would be lovely" -- 444 days
520			_aA behind-the-scenes examination of the Iran Hostage Crisis paints a portrait of the events leading up to the ordeal as a means for understanding it, drawing parallels to the current war on terrorism. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American public for 444 days and marked America's first confrontation with the forces of radical Islam. Using hundreds of recently declassified government documents, historian David Farber looks at the Hostage Crisis, examining its lessons for America's contemporary war on terrorism. Farber's narrative looks beyond the day-to-day circumstances of the crisis, using the events leading up to the ordeal as a means for understanding it. The book paints a portrait of the 1970s in the United States as an era of failed expectations in a nation plagued by uncertainty and anxiety. It reveals an American government ill prepared for the fall of the Shah of Iran and unable to reckon with the Ayatollah Khomeini and his militant Islamic followers. Farber's account is filled with fresh insights regarding the central players in the crisis: Khomeini emerges as an astute strategist, single-mindedly dedicated to creating an Islamic state. The Americans' student-captors appear as less-than-organized youths, having prepared for only a symbolic sit-in with just a three-day supply of food. ABC news chief Roone Arledge, newly installed and eager for ratings, is cited as a critical catalyst in elevating the hostages to cause célèbre status. Throughout the book there emerge eerie parallels to the current terrorism crisis. Then as now, Farber demonstrates, politicians failed to grasp the depth of anger that Islamic fundamentalists harbored toward the United States, and Americans dismissed threats from terrorist groups as the crusades of ineffectual madmen. Taken Hostage provides a chilling reminder that the past is only prologue
650		0	_aIran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981
650		0	_aIslam and politics _zIran
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _zIran
651		0	_aIran _xForeign relations _zUnited States
651		0	_aUnited States _xForeign relations _y1977-1981
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