"This wonderful book examines the history of the left wing of the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., developing a theory of revolutionary affect in the process. Moradian is a wonderful writer and interviewer who combines analytic sophistication with an unusual kind of political and intellectual generosity." - Lisa Duggan (Commie Pinko Queer newsletter) "<i>This Flame Within</i> takes seriously the power, pleasure, and melancholy of social movements. It would work especially well in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars. Moradian’s MFA in creative nonfiction and many years of organizing work in progressive feminist of color and anti-war social movements help her construct a beautifully written academic book that is also a generous and tender recording of social history." - Neda Maghbouleh (Gender and Society) "A useful contribution to the many legacies of the Iranian revolution, and not just of the secular masculine left. Examining <i>This Flame Within</i> allows one to ask how revolutionary knowledge is transmitted across generations, how new generational understandings draw on lessons from historical legacies on which they claim to build, and how so-called defeats and victories in the past actually have complicated and multiple legacies for future action." - Michael M. J. Fischer (Public Books) "An important and timely history of the Iranian Students Association (ISA) during the Cold War era. . . . Moradian’s meticulous close readings of her interlocutors-their words, emotions, and bodily comportments-give readers a sense of the weight that this history holds for her subjects. Her ability to access these communities and forms of knowledge is particularly critical to her arguments on affect." - Ida Yalzadeh (Mashriq & Mahjar) “Manijeh Moradian’s <i>This Flame Within</i> is a path breaking contribution to ethnic and transnational feminist studies that helps expand the field of Asian American studies and rewrite its genealogy from a new perspective-a new movement, region, and archive.” - Sunaina Maira (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East)