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Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran

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Forty years after Franklin Roosevelt dreamed of making Iran "an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy" fifty three Americans found themselves hostages in Iran, victims of the Iranians' rage against Americans.

How was the United States - once consider by the Iranians as their nation's savior transformed into the world-devouring Great Satan of the Khomeini era?

In this first history of over 35 years of US-Iranian relations written after the revolution, Barry Rubin examines a wide variety of archival sources and interviews more than a hundred participants, including American officials from the Defense Department, State Department, National Security Council, US Embassy in Tehran and the CIA, as well as many Iranians, both those who served under the shah and those now part of the new Islamic Government.

Paved with Good Intentions provides a dramatic, dispassionate narration of some of the most important events of the last century.

Language: English

Pages: 426

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: October 30, 1980

ISBN: 0195028058

ISBN 13: 9780195028058

Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Forty years after Franklin Roosevelt dreamed of making Iran "an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy" fifty three Americans found themselves hostages in Iran, victims of the Iranians' rage against Americans.

How was the United States - once consider by the Iranians as their nation's savior transformed into the world-devouring Great Satan of the Khomeini era?

In this first history of over 35 years of US-Iranian relations written after the revolution, Barry Rubin examines a wide variety of archival sources and interviews more than a hundred participants, including American officials from the Defense Department, State Department, National Security Council, US Embassy in Tehran and the CIA, as well as many Iranians, both those who served under the shah and those now part of the new Islamic Government.

Paved with Good Intentions provides a dramatic, dispassionate narration of some of the most important events of the last century.

Language: English

Pages: 426

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: October 30, 1980

ISBN: 0195028058

ISBN 13: 9780195028058

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