James F. Goode is professor emeritus of history at Grand Valley State University and former director of its Middle East Studies program. He is the author of The United States and Iran, 1946–51: The Diplomacy of Neglect, The United States and Iran: In the Shadow of Musaddiq, and Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919–1941.
