Full name: Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Author: Daniel Ellsberg Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780142003428 0142003425

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. Similar books: In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara The Pentagon Papers by Neil Sheehan No More Vietnams by Richard Nixon 10,000 Days of Thunder by Philip Caputo Dear America by Bernard Edelman Everything We Had by Al Santoli The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam Charlie Company by Peter Goldman A Vietcong Memoir by Truong Nhu Tang Platoon Leader by James R. McDonough A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo Vietnam by Max Hastings Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer America's Longest War by George C. Herring Nam by Mark Baker