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Fair. 1981 1st ed. There is either a bookplate, name, note, or insciprtion on the inside cover. There is light writing/highligting in this book. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. This is a hardcover copy. The book is slightly cocked. The binding is split in the middle of the text but all pages are intact. Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Very good, in very good jacket. 22 cm, 296 pages. illus., map, index, slight wear, soiling, & sticker residue to DJ, pencil erasure on front endpaper. William Healy Sullivan (October 12, 1922-October 11, 2013) was an American Foreign Service career officer who served as Ambassador to Laos from 1964-1969, the Philippines from 1973-1977, and Iran from 1977-1979. An account of the events, the personalities, and the institutions in Iran as seen through the eyes of the last American ambassador to Iran during the revolution of 1978-1979. Sullivan served as U.S. Ambassador to Iran, arriving just before President Jimmy Carter's visit to the Shah of Iran in December 1977. In the 1970s, America had extremely close military and economic links with Iran. However, in early 1978, growing unrest due to inflation and other economic hardships fueled by the growing tide of fundamentalist Islam led to demonstrations against the Shah. During the next year, however, as the domestic situation in Iran was rapidly unraveling, Washington had few instructions for the Embassy in Iran. In late 1978, Sullivan cabled Washington that it might be necessary to consider policy options if the military proved unable to assure the shah's continuance in power and the shah should depart from Iran. In January 1979, the White House instructed Sullivan to inform the shah that the U.S. government felt he should leave the country. On February 1, 1979, the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Tehran. On February 14, 1979, the US Embassy in Teheran was overrun by several different armed groups. The Embassy staff was briefly taken hostage, but later released to the caretaker Iranian government. [16] He wrote in his autobiography: "I had recommended that we accept the fact that a revolution was in progress and seek to use our not inconsiderable influence to steer its success toward its more moderate protagonists." This view, however, was not shared by Washington. On April 1, 1979, Iran officially became an Islamic Republic. After Sullivan left Iran, the Embassy drew down to a skeleton staff, under the direction of Chargé d'Affaires Bruce Laingen, who later became one of 52 Americans held hostage by militant Iranian students. He headed the American Assembly at Columbia University, which had been briefly headed by General Dwight Eisenhower before he was elected President, from 1979 to 1986. In 1981, Sullivan published Mission to Iran, a memoir of his time as ambassador. His autobiography, Obbligato: Notes on a Foreign Service Career, was published in 1984.
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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Both front flap corners clipped. Light foxing along text block edges.; 145 X 28 X 215 millimeters; 296 pages.
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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover as pictured/ex-library with usual marks in very good condition/minor wear to cover/text clean of marks/FREE DELIVERY CONFIRMATION AND TRACKING ON ALL DOMESTIC ORDERS/
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FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. SULLIVAN WAS THE LAST US AMBASSADOR TO IRAN PRIOR TO THE 1979 REVOLUTION. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT WITH JUST A TRACE OF WEAR AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE AND BOTTOM CORNER OF FRONT FLAP CLIPPED, BUT IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.