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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Aslan, Reza, author.
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Baskerville, Howard C., 1885-1909.
Missionaries -- Iran -- Biography.
Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Iran.
Iran -- History -- 1905-1911.
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An American martyr i...
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An American martyr in Persia : the epic life and tragic death of Howard Baskerville / Reza Aslan.
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Aslan, Reza, author.
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Subjects
Baskerville, Howard C., 1885-1909.
Missionaries -- Iran -- Biography.
Presbyterian Church -- Missions -- Iran.
Iran -- History -- 1905-1911.
ISBN:
9781324004479 (hardcover) :
1324004479 (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
The Mohammedan Work -- One Thousand Words for Sword -- Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, -- Be Faithful unto Death -- The Shadow of God on Earth -- Teach Them What You Have Taught Me -- Oath-Breaker -- The People's Commander -- Long Live the Just King of Kings! -- We Will Die so Freedom Can Live -- Today, I Know That I Am a Shah -- Resistance Is Equal to Suicide -- Why Bare Your Chest for a King Who Does Not Care for You? -- Either You or Constitutionalism -- This Is My Own, My Native Land! -- I Must Go. I Am Gone -- The Army of Salvation -- So Costly a Sacrifice Upon the Altar of Freedom -- The Seed of Better Things.
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"The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in South Dakota, he volunteered for missionary service in Persia. Tabriz in 1907 was a hotbed of democratic revolution. Brilliant young firebrands were among Baskerville's students at the Presbyterian school-and became his devoted friends. He lectured on freedom; they dedicated their lives to it. Soon he would join them on the battlefield. Was Howard Baskerville the "American Lafayette" of Iran, or a naïve "white savior" stumbling into Persian affairs? Baskerville's story, like his life, is at the center of a whirlwind, in which Americans must ask themselves, how seriously do we take our ideals of constitutional democracy and whose freedom do we support?"--
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
266.0092 Baskerville As
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
266.0092 Baskerville As
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Makawao Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
266.0092 Baskerville As
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Manoa Public Library
Adult Biography
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