cover image The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations

The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations

James A. Bill. Yale University Press, $28 (520pp) ISBN 978-0-300-04412-6

The author here analyzes the gradual turnabout of the U.S.-Iranian relationship--once very close, now bitterly estranged. ``Bill has written the most comprehensive, clarifying and revealing study to date of a foreign-policy failure he calls a `catastrophe of tremendous proportion,' '' lauded PW. Illustrated. (Oct.)