{"product_id":"9780743284790","title":"Persian Mirrors : The Elusive Face of Iran","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePersian Mirrors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Elaine Sciolino\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book that revealed Iran to the West, now with a new Afterword. Elaine Sciolino updates \u003ci\u003ePersian Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e to include coverage of the 2005 presidential election in Iran. \u003cbr\u003e As a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times,\u003c\/i\u003e Sciolino has had more experience covering revolutionary Iran than any other American reporter. She was aboard the airplane that took Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979 and was there for the revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Khatami, the riots of 1999, and the crisis over Iran's nuclear program. In \u003ci\u003ePersian Mirrors,\u003c\/i\u003e Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran, uncovering an alluring and seductive nation where a great battle is raging -- not for control over territory, but for the soul of its people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003eCarroll Bogert \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e American readers need a book like this, a fine account of where Iran stands today and how it got there.\u003cbr\u003eIra Lapidus \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Iran is not easy to know well, but Ms. Sciolino knows it intimately.\u003cbr\u003eLaura Ciolkowski \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Sciolino succeeds in exposing the lie of America's Iran. Her intimate portrait...shows us a country whose bold experimentation with certain democratic ideals often mirrors our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Sciolino is hopeful, if not certain, that Iranians can work their way to the rational, respectable government they deserve, and her intelligence and style convey exactly what's at stake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743284790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40590191231182,"sku":"9780743284790","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_e8631202-ebfb-4e37-bea4-87445e40181c.jpg?v=1637733624","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743284790","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}