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Secrets : a memoir of vietnam and the pentagon papers

By Daniel , Ellsberg

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781101191316, 1101191317
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2430613 bytes)
Pages
0\0
Time added
2018-09-09 15:36:35
History;HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War

Description

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 memoir, 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.  Read more...

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