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Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Secrets A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Author:Daniel Ellsberg In 1971 former Cold War hard-liner Daniel Ellsberg made history by releasing the Pentagon Papers-a 7,000-page top-secret study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam-to the New York Times and Washington Post. The document set in motion a chain of events that ended not only the Nixon presidency but the Vietnam War. In this remarkable me... more »moir, Ellsberg describes in dramatic detail the two years he spent in Vietnam as a U.S. State Department observer, and how he came to risk his career and freedom to expose the deceptions and delusions that shaped three decades of American foreign policy. The story of one man's exploration of conscience, Secrets is also a portrait of America at a perilous crossroad.« less
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Daniel Ellsberg tells his story of the Pentagon Papers. Despite the fact that this story takes place in the 1960s and early 70s, it is disturbingly similar to today's U.S. mess in Iraq.