is riveting. It tells the personalized narrative of the Iranian Hostage Crisis from all points of view. It has startling parallels to todays Iran as many of those people are in positions of authority today. It shows America meddling in Iran since 1925 with the sanctioned coup by Eisenhower and Churchill. It shows Jimmy Carter asking questions BEFORE the crisis took place and his worst nightmare came true. The hostages themselves recount the ordeal and it is deeply engrossing. It's written as if you are in the room.
The fact that nine months before the American Embassy had been taken over for a short period of time. Oddly, that seems to have relaxed their security focus rather than heightened it. There are deep ties to what is happening in Iran today that have deep roots in the Hostage Crisis and the 1953 coup. While understanding that letting the shah in the US for medical treatment might cause some tension the national security apparatus was woefully slow on their feet. The CIA representation was there for repairing the relationship to get telemetry on Soviet missiles and on it goes.
This will also have a documentary and other oral histories attached to the project.
http://theguestsoftheayatollah.com/Superbly written by the author of
Blackhawk Down. He was on C-SPAN's In Depth program 6/4. Bowden was quite forthright in saying he was focusing on this issue as it resonates so much with what is happening today. Highly recommend it.
Bringing the Heat was the first book I ever read of his and it was an inside view of the Philadelphia Eagles that is just classic!
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