All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran

by Gary G. Sick

Book Overview

All Fall Down is the definitive chronicle of America's experience with the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis of 1978-81. Drawing on internal government documents, it recounts the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394544889
• ISBN13: 9780394544885
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic - an essential work

The fact that ALL FALL DOWN has been put back into print is a testimony to its continuing relevance 20 years on. This is the best fly-on-the-wall view of an emergent situation I have ever read. It provides not only a chronology, but also personality insights into all the key players, rich cultural and religious backgrounding, and enough military and diplomatic detail to give it a thrilling quality far exceeding anything Tom Clancy could manufacture.Brian Rubendell's review below is puzzling, because this IS an excellent inside view of the Iranian revolution, a revolution which could not have occurred as it did without the shortsighted bungling of U.S. foreign policy, particularly by Nixon and Kissinger. Carter's inexperience and bad luck, and the Establishment's blinkers, were also critical.After reading this book 3 times, I am still at wit's end to understand the Middle East, but now at least I know what the critical questions are.