Selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New
York Times In recent times, the United States and Iran have seemed
closer to war than peace, but that is not where their story began.
When America was in its infancy, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy
Adams turned to the history of the Persian Empire as they looked
for guidance on how to run their new country. And in the following
century, Iranian newspapers heralded America as an ideal that their
own government might someday emulate. How, then, did the two
nations become the adversaries that they are today? In this rich,
fascinating history, John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of
America and Iran over three centuries. Drawing on years of research
conducted in both countries – including access to Iranian
government archives rarely available to Western scholars – he
leads us through the four seasons of US-Iranian relations: from the
spring of mutual fascination, where Iran, sick of duplicitous
Britain and Russia interfering in its affairs, sought a
relationship with the United States, to the long, dark winter of
hatred that we are yet to see end. A revealing account, America and
Iran lays bare when, where and how it all went wrong – and why it
didn’t have to be this way.
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