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Book SynopsisThe press leak in 1971 of a secret government document about the Vietnam War set off a chain of events that culminated in one of the most important First Amendment decisions in American legal history. This book re-examines what happened, why it mattered, and why it still has relevance today.
Trade ReviewExciting as history and compelling as law, Inside the Pentagon Papers gives us the secret documents from this famous case - and shows how thin the government's legal and factual arguments actually were. Anthony Lewis, author of Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment; ""This is a signal event, for the revelation of the Pentagon Papers brought forth Nixon's Plumbers - and the rest, as we know, is history."" Stanley I. Kutler, author of The Wars of Watergate; ""So many dazzling new perspectives on events we thought we knew and a cautionary tale for here and now."" Frank Snepp, author of Decent Interval and Irreparable Harm; ""The most complete, incisive and persuasive study of those documents yet published."" Floyd Abrams, co-counsel to the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case
