Losing Hearts and Minds: American-Iranian Relations and International Education during the Cold War

Shannon is Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College.. Matthew K

Shannon is Assistant Professor of History at Emory & Henry College.. About the AuthorMatthew K

Together they rejected the Shah's authoritarian model of development and called for civil and political rights in Iran, giving unwitting support to the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.. Shannon provides readers with a reminder of a brief and congenial phase of the relationship between the United States and Iran. institutions of higher education and produced alliances between Iranian youths and progressive Americans.Losing Hearts and Minds is a narrative rife with historical ironies. Matthew K. government worked with nongovernmental organizations to create the means for Iranians to train and study in the United States. Because of its superpower competition with the USSR, the U.S. In Losing Hearts and Minds, Shannon tells the story of an influx of Iranian students to American college campuses between 1950 and 1979 that globalized U.S. Despite these goals, Shannon locates the incubation of at least one possible version of the Iranian Revolution on American college campuses, which provided a space for a large and vocal community of dissident Iranian students to organize against the Pahlavi regime and earn the support of empathetic Americans. The stated goal of this initiative was to establish a cultural foundation for the official relationship and to provide Shah Mohamma