All Fall Down: America's Fateful Encounter with Iran - Hardcover

Sick, Gary G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850430098 ISBN 13: 9781850430094

Publisher: I.B. Tauris, 1985

Synopsis

All Fall Down is the definitive chronicle of Americas experience with the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis of 1978-81. Drawing on internal government documents, it recounts the controversies, decisions and uncertainties that made this a unique chapter in modern American history. From his personal experiences, the author draws revealing portraits of the people who engaged in this test of wills with an Islamic revolutionary regime. A page one review in the New York Times Book Review praised it as convincing, fair and balanced.

About this title

About the Author:

Gary Sick served on the National Security Council staff under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. A retired Navy captain, Dr. Sick is Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University and executive director of Gulf/2000, an international research project on the Persian Gulf.

About this edition

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 1850430098
• ISBN 13: 9781850430094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380