oglesby, carl

The definitive chronicle of America's experience with the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis of 1978-81. From personal experience, the author draws revealing portraits of the people who engaged in this test of wills with an Islamic revolutionary regime.

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. The subsequent publication of that paper, in which he argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable, would put him on the fast track to becoming the president of the protest movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).