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Article: Days of rage.(The Crisis: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah--1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam)(Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam)(Book Review)
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- December 13, 2004
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THE CRISIS: The President, the Prophet, and the Shah--1979 and the Coming of Militant Islam.
By David Harris.
Little, Brown. 470 pp. $26.95.
TAKEN HOSTAGE: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam.
By David Farber.
Princeton. 212 pp. $22.95.
On November 4, 1979, a few months after the collapse of the Iranian monarchy and the inauguration of Iran's Islamic Republic, a group of college students calling themselves the Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam rushed the gates of the US Embassy in Tehran, scaled its walls and promptly took control of the compound and its diplomatic ...