Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the
β Sheinkin, Steve
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Most dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
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- Roaring Brook Press;Macmillan
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- 2015
- Tongue
- English
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- First edition
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β¦ Synopsis
In 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was one of the Pentagon insiders helping to plan a war in Vietnam. The mountainous Asian country had long been a clandestine front in America's Cold War with the Soviet Union. The U.S. Government would do anything to stop the spread of communism--with or without the consent of the American people.
But as the fighting in Vietnam escalated. Ellsberg turned against the war. He had access to a top-secret government report known as the Pentagon Papers and knew it could blow the lid off of years of government lies. But did he have the right to expose decades of presidential secrets? And could one man, alone, face the wrath of the government?
This is the story of the seven bloody years that transformed Daniel Ellsberg from a government insider into "the most dangerous man in America," and of the storm that would follow when the secrets of the Vietnam War were finally known.
--front flap
β¦ Table of Contents
Prologue : Feasibility study --
Part I. Insider. Cold warrior
Day one
Hostile action
Welcome Americans
Wider war
Patricia
Limited operations
Diving board
Kill ratio
Escalation
Break-up
Making progress
Search and destroy
Lasting impression --
Part II. Secrets and Lies. Credibility gap
The power of leaks
Low point
Madman theory
The Pentagon Papers
Whole vote
Night work
Troublemaker
Behind the mask
Bridges burned
War room
A matter of patriotism --
Part III. Outsider. Slow build
Mr. Boston
Underground
Arrest
Fame
The plumbers
Bag job
Consequences
Preposterous
Peace with honor?
Bizarre events
Painful truth --
Epilogue : History repeats.
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