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.

:: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
:: The Pentagon Papers
:: The Best and the Brightest
:: In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
:: America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon

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