1 Among these books are: William Shawcross, The Shah's Last Ride the Fate of an Ally. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1988; Marvin Zonis, Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah, Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1993; Gary Sick, All Fall Down: America's Tragic Encounter with Iran, New york, Random House, 1985; Barry rubin, Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience in Iran, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980; Nikki Keddie, Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1980; Hamid Dabashi, Theology of Discontent: The Ideologicol Foundations of the Iranian Revolution, New York, New York University Press, 1993; Jerold Green, Revolution in Iran: The Politics of Countermobilization, Praeger Publishers, 1982.

2 Said Amir Arjomand, The Turbrn for tht Crown: The Islamic Revolution in Iran, Studies in Middle Eastern History, New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. This book, a valuable addition to the literature on the Iranian Revolution, undertakes a comparative, historical and multi-ditcipline analysis.

3 Ervand Abrahamian, Iran Between Two Revolutions, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1982.

4 For the relationship of the ulama and the Pahlavis see: Shahrough Akhavi, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Iran: Clergy-State Relations in the Pahlavi Period, Albany, State University of New York Press, 1980.

5 This point is made well by Arjomand in the Turbon for the Crown.