{"id":106,"date":"2020-02-06T16:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T22:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=106"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:22:25","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abiz, Alireza, Censorship of Literature in Post-Revolutionary Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Politics and Culture since 1979 (2018).<\/p>\n<p>Abrahamian, Ervand, Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982).<\/p>\n<p>Abrahamian, Ervand, Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran (1999).<\/p>\n<p>Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin, Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Afrasiabi, Kaveh, Iran\u2019s Nuclear Program:\u00a0\u00a0Debating Facts Versus Fiction (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Akbarzadeh, Shahram and Dara Conduit (Editors), Iran in the World:\u00a0\u00a0President Rouhani&#8217;\u2019s Foreign Policy (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Alavi, Nasrin, We Are Iran:\u00a0\u00a0The Persian Blogs\u00a0(2005).<\/p>\n<p>Albloshi, Hamad, The Eternal Revolution:\u00a0\u00a0Hardliners and Conservatives in Iran (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Albright, David, and Sarah Burkhard, Iran\u2019s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons Kindle Edition (2021).<\/p>\n<p>Alinejad, Masih, The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (2018).<\/p>\n<p>Amanat, Abbas, Iran: A Modern History (2017).<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, Scott, King of Kings:\u00a0 The Iranian Revolution, A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (2025).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, Confronting Iran:\u00a0\u00a0The Failure of American Foreign Policy and the Next Great Conflict in the Middle East (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, Iran (2024).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, Iran: A Very Short Introduction (2014).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change, 3rd Edition (2019).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, Iran Under Ahmadinejad (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, Modern Iran Since 1921: the Pahlavis and After (2003).<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, Ali, The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Aronson, S., The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Axworthy, Michael, Empire of the Mind:\u00a0\u00a0A History of Iran (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Axworthy, Michael, Revolutionary Iran:\u00a0\u00a0A History of the Islamic Republic (2013).<\/p>\n<p>Azizi, Arash, Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the U.S. and Iran&#8217;s Global Ambitions (2021).<\/p>\n<p>Azizi, Arash, What Iranians Want:\u00a0 Women, Life, Freedom (2024).<\/p>\n<p>Baer, Robert, The Devil We Know:\u00a0\u00a0Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Bajoghli, Narges, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (2019).<\/p>\n<p>Bakhash, Shaul, The Reign of the Ayatollahs: Iran and the Islamic Revolution (1984).<\/p>\n<p>Bamford, James, Puzzle Palace (1983).<\/p>\n<p>Barnaby, Frank, How to Build a Nuclear Bomb:\u00a0\u00a0And Other Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Bayram Sinkaya, Bayram, The Revolutionary Guards in Iranian Politics Elites and Shifting Relations (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Beeman, William,\u00a0The \u201cGreat Satan\u201d vs. the \u201cMad Mullahs\u201d:\u00a0\u00a0How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other (2005).<\/p>\n<p>Beeman, William, Understanding Iran:\u00a0\u00a0From Ancient Times to the Islamic Republic (2018).<\/p>\n<p>Belliague, Christopher de, The Struggle for Iran (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Bergman, Ronen, The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Terrorist Power (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Bill, James, The Eagle and the Lion:\u00a0\u00a0The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988).<\/p>\n<p>Bowden, Mark, Guests of the Ayatollah:\u00a0\u00a0The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America\u2019s War with Militant Islam (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Bradley, Mark, Open Hearts in a Closed Land (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Brookes, Peter, A Devil\u2019s Triangle: Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Brown, L.C., International Politics and the Middle East (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Buchan, James, Days of God (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Buchta, Wilfried, Who Rules Iran?\u00a0\u00a0The Structure of Power in the Islamic Republic (2000).<\/p>\n<p>Campbell, Kurt M., Einhom, Robert J., Reiss, Mitchell, The Nuclear Tipping Point:\u00a0\u00a0Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Cirincione, Joseph, Wolfsthal, Jon, Rajkumar, Miriam, Deadly Arsenals:\u00a0\u00a0Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats (2005).<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter, Ted Galen, Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program:\u00a0\u00a0America&#8217;s Policy Options (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Clawson, Patrick, and Michael Rubin,\u00a0Eternal Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Continuity and Chaos\u00a0(2005).<\/p>\n<p>Cohen, Jared, Children of Jihad:\u00a0\u00a0A Young American\u2019s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Cook, Alethia, and Jalil Rawshandil, The United States and Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Policy Challenges and Opportunities (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, Andrew Scott, The Fall of Heaven:\u00a0\u00a0The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Cordesman, A.H., K.R. Al-Rodhan, Iranian Nuclear Weapons?:\u00a0\u00a0The Options If Diplomacy Fails (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Cordesman, Anthony, Seitz, Adam, Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction:\u00a0\u00a0The Birth of a Regional Nuclear Arms Race? (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Cordesman, Anthony H., Al-Rodhan, Khalid R., Iran\u2019s Weapons of Mass Destruction:\u00a0\u00a0The Real and Potential Threat (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Corera, Gordon, Shopping for Bombs:\u00a0\u00a0Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Corsi, Jerome R., Evans, Michael D., Showdown with Nuclear Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Radical Islam&#8217;s Messianic Mission (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Crist, David, The Twilight War:\u00a0\u00a0The Secret History of America\u2019s Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Delpech, Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, Iran and the Bomb:\u00a0\u00a0The Abdication of International Responsibility (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Dorraj, Manochehr, Kamrava, Mahran, Iran Today:\u00a0\u00a0An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Ebadi, Shirin,\u00a0Iran Awakening:\u00a0\u00a0A Memoir of Revolution and Hope (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Ebadi, Shirin, Until We Are Free:\u00a0\u00a0My Fight for Human Rights in Iran (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Ebel, Robert E., Geopolitics of the Iranian Nuclear Energy Program:\u00a0\u00a0But Oil and Gas Still Matter (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Ehteshami, Anoushiravan , Mahjoob Zweiri, Iran and the Rise of its Neoconservatives:\u00a0\u00a0The Politics of Tehran\u2019s Silent Revolution (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Elliot, Jason, Mirrors of the Unseen (2006)<\/p>\n<p>Erlich, Reese, The Iran Agenda:\u00a0\u00a0The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Evron, Y., Israel\u2019s Nuclear Dilemma (1994).<\/p>\n<p>Evyatar, Ilan and Yonah Jeremy Bob, Target Tehran (2023).<\/p>\n<p>Fawcett, Louise, Iran and the Cold War (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Fayazmanesh, Sasan, The United States and Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Sanctions, Wars and the Policy of Dual Containment (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Foltz, Richard, Iran in World History (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Freedman, Lawrence, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (2003).<\/p>\n<p>Frye, Richard, Greater Iran (2005).<\/p>\n<p>Frye, Richard, The Golden Age Of Persia: The Arabs in the East (1988).<\/p>\n<p>Ganji, Akbar, The Road to Democracy in Iran (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Garthwaite, Gene,\u00a0The Persians\u00a0(2005).<\/p>\n<p>Ghazvinian, John, America and Iran:\u00a0 A History, 1720 to the Present (2021).<\/p>\n<p>Gheissari, Ali, Nasr, Vali, Democracy in Iran:\u00a0\u00a0History and the Quest for Liberty (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Gold, Dore, The Iran Threat:\u00a0\u00a0President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Gold, Dore, The Rise of Nuclear Iran:\u00a0\u00a0How Tehran Defies the West (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Green, Jerrold, Frederic Wehrey, Charles Wolf, Understanding Iran (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Haftlang, Kiyanush Kiyani,\u00a0\u00a0Azita Rajabi, Azita, The Book of Iran:\u00a0\u00a0A Survey of the Geography of Iran (2003).<\/p>\n<p>Hakakian, Roya, Journey From The Land of No (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Hammed, Shahidian, Women in Iran: Gender Politics in the Islamic Republic (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Harris, Mark Edward, Kiarostami, Abbas, Inside Iran (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Hedayat, Sadegh, The Blind Owl (1987).<\/p>\n<p>Hersch, Seymour, The Samson Option (Israeli Nuclear Program) (1991).<\/p>\n<p>Hitchcock, Mark,\u00a0 Iran: The Coming Crisis:\u00a0\u00a0Radical Islam, Oil, and the Nuclear Threat (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Houghton, David Patrick, US Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis (2001).<\/p>\n<p>Housden, Roger, Saved By Beauty (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Howard, Jane, Inside Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Women\u2019s Lives (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Humire, Joseph, Iran\u2019s Strategic Penetration of Latin America (2014).<\/p>\n<p>Jafarzadeh, Alireza, The Iran Threat:\u00a0\u00a0President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Kahn, Saira, Iran and Nuclear Weapons:\u00a0\u00a0Protracted Conflict and Proliferation (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Kairouz, Anthony, Nuclear Iran:\u00a0\u00a0A Prelude to WWIII (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Kahlili, Reza,\u00a0A Time to Betray:\u00a0\u00a0The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran\u00a0(2010).<\/p>\n<p>Kam, Ephraim, Israel and a Nuclear Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Implications for Arms Control (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Kam, Ephriam, A Nuclear Iran:\u00a0\u00a0What Does it Mean and What Can Be Done (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Kamali, Marjan, The Lion Women of Tehran (2024).<\/p>\n<p>Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh, and Robert Steele, eds., Iran and Global Decolonisation (2024).<\/p>\n<p>Katzman, Kenneth, Iran:\u00a0\u00a0U. 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Concerns and Policy Responses (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Kaye, D.D., Wehrey, F.M., A Nuclear Iran:\u00a0\u00a0The Reactions of Neighbours (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Keddie, Nikki,\u00a0Modern Iran:\u00a0\u00a0Roots and Results of Revolution\u00a0(2003).<\/p>\n<p>Khosravi, Shahram, Young and Defiant in Tehran (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Kinzer, Stephen, All the Shah\u2019s Men (2003)<\/p>\n<p>Kousha, Mahnaz, Voices from Iran:\u00a0\u00a0The Changing Lives of Iranian Women (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Kroenig, Matthew, A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat (2014).<\/p>\n<p>Kuntzel, Matthias, The Germans and Iran: The History and Present of a Fateful Friendship (2014).<\/p>\n<p>Kurzman, Charles, The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Ledeen, Michael, The Iranian Time Bomb:\u00a0\u00a0The Mullah Zealots\u2019 Quest for Destruction (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Ledeen, Michael, Lewis, William, Debacle:\u00a0\u00a0The American Failure in Iran (1981).<\/p>\n<p>Leonard, Barry, Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities:\u00a0\u00a0National Intelligence (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, Faith and Power:\u00a0 Religion and Politics in the Middle East (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, From Babel to Dragomans (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, Islam:\u00a0 The Religion and the People (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, Islam and the West (1993).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, Islam in History:\u00a0 Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East (1993).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, The Jews of Islam (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, Race and Slavery in the Middle East (1990).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, The Arabs in History (1993).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, The Assassins:\u00a0 A Radical Sect in Islam (2003).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, The Crisis of Islam:\u00a0 Holy War and Unholy Terror (2003).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, The Emergence of Modern Turkey (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, The End of Modern History in the Middle East (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, Bernard, What Went Wrong:\u00a0 Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Loveday, Helen, Iran-Persia:\u00a0\u00a0Ancient and Modern\u00a0(2005).<\/p>\n<p>Luers, William, Pickering, Thomas, Walsh, Jim., A Solution for the US-Iran Nuclear Standoff (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Mackey, Sandra, The Iranians:\u00a0\u00a0Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation (1996).<\/p>\n<p>Maloney, Suzanne, Iran\u2019s Long Reach:\u00a0\u00a0Iran as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Majd, Hooman, The Ayatollah Begs to Differ:\u00a0\u00a0The Paradox of Modern Iran (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, Eminent Persians: Men and Women Who Made Modern Iran, 1941-1979 (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, Modernity and its Foes in Iran (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, Politics &amp; Culture in Contemporary Iran: Challenging the Status Quo (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, Politics &amp; Culture in Contemporary Iran: Challenging the Status Quo (2015).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, Tales of Two Cities: A Persian Memoir (1996).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, The Myth of the Great Satan (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Milani, Abbas, The Shah (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Mirsepassi, Ali, Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Moezzi, Melody, Haldol and Hyacinths:\u00a0\u00a0A Bipolar Life (2014).<\/p>\n<p>Mojtahed-Zadeh, Pirouz Boundary Politics and International Boundaries of Iran: A Study (2007).<\/p>\n<p>Molavi, Afshin, The Soul of Iran:\u00a0\u00a0A Nation\u2019s Journey to Freedom (2005).<\/p>\n<p>Moore-Gilbert, Kylie, The Uncaged Sky:\u00a0 My 804 days in an Iranian Prison (2022).<\/p>\n<p>Moslem, Mehdi, Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran (2002).<\/p>\n<p>Mottahedeh, Roy, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (1985).<\/p>\n<p>Nader, Alireza, et al., The Next Supreme Leader:\u00a0\u00a0Succession in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Nagle, Chet, Iran Covenant (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Naji, Kasra, Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran\u2019s Radical Leader (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Nasr, Vali, Iran\u2019s Grand Strategy: A Political History (2025).<\/p>\n<p>Nayeri, Daniel, Everything Sad Is Untrue (2020).<\/p>\n<p>Nayeri, Dina, The Ungrateful Refugee:\u00a0 What Immigrants Never Tell You (2019).<\/p>\n<p>Nila (alias), In the Streets of Tehran:\u00a0 Woman. 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