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Beginning his junior year at Cesar Chavez High School, Ernesto Sandoval didn't want to move back to the barrio until he sees Naomi Martinez and finds himself falling in love.

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• Foreword(p. xiii)
• Preface(p. xv)
• Author's Introduction(p. xvii)
• Part I Present Perspectives(p. 1)
• Chapter 1. Dealing with "God's People" in International Relations(p. 3)
• 1. Modern Israel and Iran in U.S. Foreign Affairs(p. 5)
• 2. Linking U.S. and Israeli Interests in Iran(p. 9)
• 3. Iran, Israel, and the Kissinger-Nixon Doctrine(p. 11)
• 4. The Religious Dimension(p. 15)
• 5. Antinomian Prerogatives of Religious Zeal(p. 18)
• 6. Guidance from Spinoza(p. 23)
• Chapter 2. Current Israeli-American Relations(p. 31)
• 1. The Israeli-American Mutual Security Alliance of 1983(p. 31)
• 2. Traditional Anglo-American Success in Covert Warfare(p. 36)
• 3. Alternatives(p. 40)
• Part II Historical Patterns(p. 43)
• Chapter 3. Three Traditions of Monotheism in Our Times(p. 45)
• 1. Jewish Biblical Expectations(p. 46)
• 2. Christian Political Pessimism(p. 51)
• 3. Mohammed's "Revolution of the East"(p. 52)
• 4. The American Religious Legacy(p. 57)
• Chapter 4. Ancient Israel and the Ancient Imperial Superpowers(p. 63)
• 1. Iranian Foundations of Post-Biblical Judaism(p. 64)
• 2. Bickerman on the Iranian-Judaic Legacy(p. 67)
• 3. Israel Under the Greeks and Romans: Toward a Portable Homeland(p. 77)
• Chapter 5. Iran After Mohammed's Conquest: A Nation of Shiite Martyrs(p. 81)
• 1. Pahlavi Imperial Dreams and Shiite Alienation in the 1970s(p. 81)
• 2. The "Shame of Islam": The Kerbela Massacre of 680 A.D.(p. 84)
• 3. The Shiite Legacy of the Martyred Imam Hussein(p. 86)
• 4. Mourning the Martyrs Through the Centuries: Ceremonial Catharsis(p. 88)
• 5. Pahlavi: A Name for Modernizing Shahs to Conjure With(p. 95)
• Part III Making and Breaking a Shah(p. 101)
• Chapter 6. Puppet-Masters of Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's Career, 1941-1973(p. 103)
• 1. First Major American String-Puller: Kermit Roosevelt and the Countercoup of April 1953(p. 106)
• 2. From the "White Revolution" (1963) to the "Imperial Coronation" (1967)(p. 109)
• 3. Persepolis (1971): A 2,500-year-old Pre-Islamic Throne?(p. 112)
• 4. From Persepolis to the American "Blank Check" of 1972(p. 113)
• Chapter 7. Kissinger's "Deal" with the Shah and Its Consequences, 1973-1979(p. 119)
• 1. Retrospective Inquiries During the 1980 Presidential Campaign(p. 120)
• 2. J.C. Hurewitz's Analysis of the Corruptive Force of the Deal(p. 123)
• 3. A Shaky Throne: Illusory Support of the "Nixon Doctrine"(p. 125)
• 4. The Vietnamization of Iran(p. 127)
• 5. Foreign Stakes in the Shah's Fall and Israel's Special Dilemma(p. 129)
• Chapter 8. Kissinger's Man in Iran: William H. Sullivan(p. 133)
• 1. Introducing Sullivan(p. 136)
• 2. Apprenticeship: Dumping Diem for Harriman and Thieu for Kissinger(p. 139)
• 3. Supervising Saigon's Surrender from the Philippines(p. 148)
• 4. The Tehran Build-Up: Eighteen Months as the Shah's "Staunchest Supporter"(p. 155)
• 5. Imperial Indecision and Sullivan's "Opportunity"(p. 165)
• Chapter 9. The Shah's Ouster: Sullivan vs. Carter, Huyser, and Brzezinski(p. 169)
• 1. Sullivan's "Conversion" and First Reports of a Mysterious "Huyser Mission"(p. 171)
• 2. Blaming President Carter: The Attacks of Kissinger, Haig, and Sullivan(p. 180)
• 3. Sullivan and Iran's Armed Forces(p. 186)
• 4. The Shah's Flight: Out Like a Mouse?(p. 198)
• 5. General Huyser's Report and the Last Days of Bakhtiar's Interregnum(p. 200)
• Part IV Religious/Political Dilemmas Since 1979(p. 205)
• Chapter 10. Khomeini's New Iran: Anti-Zionist But Not Anti-American(p. 207)
• 1. First Seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: A Conspiracy Against Khomeini?(p. 210)
• 2. Cui Bono?(p. 214)
• 3. Sullivan's Last "Happy Months": Khomeini's Commandos as U.S. Embassy Guards(p. 220)
• 4. Sullivan the "Centurion": Home, at Last(p. 225)
• 5. Obstacles to Normalized Relations: From Sullivan to Cutler to Laingen(p. 229)
• 6. Iranian Jews and Israel's "Realpolitik" for Winners(p. 240)
• Chapter 11. Who "Lost" Iran?(p. 247)
• 1. The Hostage-Crisis Before the Fact: William Bundy's Prescient Analysis(p. 250)
• 2. Mastermind of the "Loss": Vance, Brzezinski,...or Kissinger?(p. 253)
• 3. Kermit Roosevelt and General Huyser vs. Kissinger's Doctrine of "Defeatist Interventionism"(p. 259)
• 4. "Sticking With the Shah": Kissinger's "Realpolitik" for Losers(p. 262)
• 5. Admitting the Shah(p. 267)
• 6. Reasons of State vs. the Claims of "Humanity"(p. 276)
• 7. Last False Hopes: The Brzezinski-Yazdi-Bazargan Meeting in Algiers(p. 280)
• Chapter 12. The Second Embassy Seizure: First Phase(p. 283)
• 1. The Embassy After Sullivan(p. 286)
• 2. First Hours of the November 1979 Attack: State Department Perspectives(p. 293)
• 3. Bruce Laingen and the Trials of the Bani-Sadr/Ghotbzadeh Leadership(p. 302)
• 4. The Hostage Captors: Religious or Secular Student-Militants?(p. 310)
• Chapter 13. Ending the Crisis: Victory for the Foes of Normalized Relations(p. 321)
• 1. The "Evil of Factions" in Iranian and American Domestic Affairs(p. 323)
• 2. Tipping the Scales in the 1980 Presidential Election(p. 331)
• 3. The Fail-Safe Rescue Mission that "Safely Failed": April 1980(p. 336)
• 4. Alternatives and Pseudo-Alternatives(p. 340)
• 5. Hardline Precedents: From Republican Rome to the American Founding Fathers(p. 346)
• 6. Bargaining with Blackmailers: In and Out of the Media's Glare(p. 353)
• 7. Wresting Control: Iran's Compliance in a Thankless Task(p. 362)
• 8. Khomeini's Last Word on the Crisis(p. 370)
• Chapter 14. Seeds of Irangate: Retrospectives of a Professor and a General(p. 373)
• 1. Gifts, But No "Blank Check," for the Magi: Up Close with James Bill and Gary Sick(p. 373)
• 2. The Kissinger-Sullivan Legacy in Iran: General Huyser Looks Back(p. 378)
• 3. Conclusion(p. 388)
• Index(p. 391)