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Said describes the book as the third and last in a series of books (the first two were Orientalism and The Question of Palestine) in which he analyzes the relations between the Islamic world, Arabs and East and West, France, Great Britain and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eCovering Islam deals with issues during and after the \u003ca class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Iranian hostage crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iranian_hostage_crisis\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIranian hostage crisis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and how the Western media has speculated on the realities of Islamic life. 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Today the stakes are even higher: such a war could break the back of America's strained superpower status. Challenging the daily clamour of U.S. sabre rattling, Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that America should renounce thirty years of failed strategy and engage with Iran - just as Nixon revolutionized U.S. foreign policy by going to Beijing and realigning relations with China. Former analysts in both the Bush and Clinton administrations, the Leveretts offer a uniquely informed account of Iran as it actually is today, not as many have caricatured it or wished it to be. They show that Iran's political order is not on the verge of collapse, that most Iranians still support the Islamic Republic, and that Iran's regional influence makes it critical to progress in the Middle East. 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