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"I Had Left One America and Come Home to Another One": First-Person Accounts of Captivity During the Iranian Hostage Crisis
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Introduction
In a May 1981 New York Times retrospective on the Iranian hostage crisis, reporter John Kifner wrote that President Jimmy Carter described his feelings during the 444 days of capture as similar to the "impotence that a powerful person feels when his child is kidnapped" (101). As the hostage crisis progressed, both the press and the president portrayed the United States as held hostage. Writers for Newsweek explained that the hostages were received as heroes upon their arri...
