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A dark era dawns.(books, arts & manners)(Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam)(Book review)
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam, by Mark Bowden (Atlantic Monthly Press, 704 pp., $26)
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'LIKE most of the great turning points in history," writes Mark Bowden of the 1979-81 Iranian hostage crisis, "it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming." The CIA sure didn't. Less than six months before Iran's pro-American shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled the country in the face of violent unrest, the agency reported that Iran was "not in a revolutionary or even a prerevolutionary situation." That was in August 1978. "A year and a revolution later," says Bowden, "America was still ...
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