Derek Adelman’s Reviews > Den of Spies: Reagan, Carter, and the Secret History of the Treason That Stole the White House: A Provocative History with Deep Political Revelations, ... the High-Stakes Political Games of the 1980s > Status Update

The CIA and other intelligence agencies didn’t like how President Carter handled the Iranian hostage crisis.

Americans have been taken hostage from the embassy. Millions of Americans tuned into a new television program called Nightline to watch the unfolding drama nightly.