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Taken Hostage : The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)
Taken Hostage The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam - Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America
Author: David Farber
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 docum...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691119168
ISBN-10: 0691119163
Publication Date: 9/7/2004
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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