This was a book that I kept picking up to read but then put down again after a short time because it was such a disturbing story. It took me almost a month and a half to get through the book but it was worth the effort.
I remember that time of the Iranian revolution very vividly in the late 1970's. and the 1979 hostage crises in particular. Also recently I had been reading some of my notes I'd written about the hostage crises I had written at the time and found in my box of "stuff" on the 3rd floor.
I had read several histories of the Middle East, Persia, Iraq and the region in general. It was certainly an interesting story of the Shah of Iran, the so called King of Kings. I was shocked to read how weak a leader he really was and also the terrible bungling of the Americans in dealing with him and the Iranian revolution. President Carter really did a bad job but then of course he had lots of inept people giving him bad information.
The book also detailed the proof that the Ronald Reagan campaign really did work with the Iranians to keep the American hostages in captivity until after the election so that Reagan could use the crises against Carter. As we know, the hostages were released the day Reagan took office. Everyone believed it was Reagan manipulating the crises behind the scene but it has only been recent that the proof has become public as described in the book.
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