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Secrets, a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers, Daniel Ellsberg

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Secrets, a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers, Daniel Ellsberg
Language
eng
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Main title
Secrets
Responsibility statement
Daniel Ellsberg
Sub title
a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers
Summary
Ellsberg provides a vivid eyewitness account of the two years he spent behind the lines in Vietnam as a State Department observeran experience that convinced him of the hopelessness of Johnson's policies and profoundly altered his own political thinking. As Ellsberg recounts with drama and insight, the release of the Pentagon Papers, first The New York Times and The Washington Post, set in motion a train of events that ultimately toppled a president and helped to end an unjust war
Target audience
adult
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