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The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post

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.

[Ellsberg's] well-told memoir sticks in the mind and will be a powerful testament for future students of a war that the United

Secrets A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: 30/09/2003
      ISBN13: 9780142003428, 978-0142003428
      ISBN10: 0142003425
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      Biography: historical, political and military

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The true story of the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the event which inspired Steven Spielberg’s feature film The Post

      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.

      [Ellsberg's] well-told memoir sticks in the mind and will be a powerful testament for future students of a war that the United

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