In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs

<p>The history of Iran in the late twentieth century is a chronicle of religious fervor and violent change -- from the Islamic Revolution that ousted the Shah in favor of a rigid fundamentalist government to the bloody eight-year war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But what happened to the hostage-takers the suicidal holy warriors the martyrs and the mullahs responsible for the now moribund revolution? Is modern Iran a society at peace with itself and the world or truly a dangerous spoke in the Axis of Evil?</p><p>Christopher de Bellaigue a Western journalist married to an Iranian woman and a longtime resident of a prosperous suburb of Tehran offers a stunning insider's view of a culture hitherto hidden from American eyes and reveals the true hearts and minds of an extraordinary people.</p>