Malcolm Byrne is Deputy Director and Research Director at the National Security Archive. He is the coauthor of Becoming Enemies: U.S.-Iran Relations in the Iran-Iraq War, 1979-1988.
"At last, the Iran-Contra affair has a comprehensive history worthy
of the scandal which, if the system had worked, should have landed
many senior White House officials in the slammer. Malcolm Byrne has
told this complex story in brilliant fashion."--Seymour M. Hersh,
author of Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib"A
riveting book about a remarkable scandal and a warning about the
excesses of secrecy and partisanship in American foreign
policy."--Bruce Riedel, author of Al Qaeda: Its Leadership,
Ideology, and Future"An impressive, compelling and revelatory
work."--David Farber, author of Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage
Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
"The research is thorough, yet Byrne is able to narrate the
intricacies of covert actions and legal processes in a digestible
way."--Political Science Quarterly"It is difficult to write
dispassionately about the Iran-Contra affair and Byrne deserves
praise for maintaining his objectivity while laying bare a tale of
abuse of power, incompetence, and illegal behavior. the issues he
raises are too important to ignore."--Journal of American History"A
high-quality, meticulously researched book that sheds much light on
a controversy that, nearly three decades ago, shook the American
political system to its core. . . . [Malcolm] Byrne, the deputy
director of the National Security Archive at George Washington
University, has been studying the scandal since it first erupted,
and he has now pulled together years of research into a very good
book that lays the scandal's ugly intricacies bare."--Wall Street
Journal"The contest between the United States and Iran, however,
outlasted the sudden collapse of the Soviet power from 1989-1991.
As Malcolm Byrne demonstrates in his very fine book, the
Iran-Contra affair belongs as a key chapter in that longer
story."--History News Network"Provides fascinating details about US
ignorance about Iran, which contributed to the largely botched
effort to free US hostages in Lebanon and hindered a possible
breakthrough in US-Iran ties 30 years ago."--Al-Monitor"Byrne does
not portray Reagan as a passive, disengaged president victimized by
maverick policy makers. Through the use of primary sources, the
author demonstrates that Reagan was actively involved in every
stage of Iran-Contra from its initiation through the cover up. . .
. Byrne provides readers with a cautionary tale about structural
issues in the American political system that perpetuate the
unchecked abuse of power by the executive branch. this work is a
must read for students of the presidency. Highly
recommended."--Choice
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