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Guests of the Ayatollah
- The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
- Narrated by: Mark Bowden
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history. It was America's first showdown with Islamic fundamentalism, a confrontation at the forefront of American policy to this day. It was also a powerful dramatic story that captivated the American people, launched yellow-ribbon campaigns, made celebrities of the hostage's families, and crippled the reelection campaign of President Jimmy Carter.
Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, their radical, naive captors, the soldiers sent on the impossible mission to free them, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Taking listeners from the Oval Office to the hostages' cells, Guests of the Ayatollah is a remarkably detailed, brilliantly re-created, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-03-24
In depth and personal if lacking exploration of ideology
This is a very enjoyable and meticulously researched book. It gives a very personal history of the event to put a face to people often mentioned only as a number. The only thing that would have improved it would be an exploration of Khomenist Iran’s revolutionary ideology and how it impacts the Middle East today.
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