Volume 28, Number 8 · May 14, 1981
Who Lost Iran?
By Shaul Bakhash
Debacle: The American Failure in Iran
by Michael Ledeen, by William Lewis
Knopf, 256 pp., $14.95
In the spring of 1980, Michael Ledeen and William Lewis published an article in the Washington Quarterly describing the attempt of the Carter administration, in the second half of 1978 and early 1979, to work out a policy to deal with the rising revolutionary tide in Iran. They have now expanded their article into a book. It is well that they have done so. The story of what happened in Washington, as the Shah stumbled toward his Armageddon, is dramatic in itself and worth telling. Moreover, to a much greater degree than in the original article, the present book lays bare the underlying assumptions of the authors and the argument they wish to make about American foreign policy and its faults.
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