04363nam a2200301 k 4500001001300000005001500013008004100028010001600069020002800085040001800113043001200131049001300143050002100156052002200177082002100199100004700220245007600267260002900343300002200372504006400394520161700458600002202075630002102097650005102118653003802169950001302207963184102220WMO20031518720031113100418020306s2002    us            001  deng    a? 02016874   a0670030309 (alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdWSL  aa-vt---0 lWM392314 0aDS558b.E44 200202a959.7043373bE47s0 a959.704/33732211 aEllsberg, Daniel,d1931-20230KAC2020O938610aSecrets:ba memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers/dDaniel Ellsberg  aNew York:bViking,c2002  ax, 498 p.;c25 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 471-475) and index.  aSummary: Daniel Ellsberg began his career as a U. S. Marine company commander, a Pentagon official, and a staunch supporter of America's battle against Communist expansion. But in October 1969, Ellsberg--fully expecting to spend the rest of his life in prison--set out to turn around American foreign policy by smuggling out of his office the seven-thousand-page top-secret study, known as the Pentagon Papers, of U.S. decision making in Vietnam. Ellsberg tells the full story of how and why he became one of the nation's most impassioned and influential antiwar activists--and how his actions helped alter the course of U.S. history.  Covering the decade between his entry into the Pentagon and Nixon's resignation, Secrets is Ellsberg's meticulously detailed insider's account of the secrets and lies that shaped American foreign policy during the Vietnam era. Ellsberg provides a vivid eyewitness account of the two years he spent behind the lines in Vietnam as a State Department observer--an 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 to 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.  Infused with the political passion and turmoil of the Vietnam era, Secrets is at once the memoir of a committed, daring man, an insider's expose of Washington, and a meditation on the meaning of patriotism under a government intoxicated by keeping secrets.10aEllsberg, Daniel.10aPentagon Papers. 0aVietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975zUnited States.  aSECRETSaVIETNAMaPENTAGON PAPERS0 bUS$22.16  aDanielaEllsbergabeganahisacareeraasaaaU.aS.aMarineacompanyacommander,aaaPentagonaofficial,aandaaastaunchasupporteraofaAmerica'sabattleaagainstaCommunistaexpansion.aButainaOctobera1969,aEllsberg--fullyaexpectingatoaspendarestaofahisalifeainaprison--setaoutatoaturnaaroundaAmericanaforeignapolicyabyasmugglingaoutaofahisaofficeaseven-thousand-pageatop-secretastudy,aknownaasaPentagonaPapers,aofaU.S.adecisionamakingainaVietnam.aEllsbergatellsafullastoryaofahowaandawhyaheabecameaoneaofanation'samostaimpassionedaandainfluentialaantiwaraactivists--andahowahisaactionsahelpedaalteracourseaofaU.S.ahistory.aCoveringadecadeabetweenahisaentryaintoaPentagonaandaNixon'saresignation,aSecretsaisaEllsberg'sameticulouslyadetailedainsider'saaccountaofasecretsaandaliesathatashapedaAmericanaforeignapolicyaduringaVietnamaera.aEllsbergaprovidesaaavividaeyewitnessaaccountaofatwoayearsaheaspentabehindalinesainaVietnamaasaaaStateaDepartmentaobserver--anaexperienceathataconvincedahimaofahopelessnessaofaJohnson'sapoliciesaandaprofoundlyaalteredahisaownapoliticalathinking.aAsaEllsbergarecountsawithadramaaandainsight,areleaseaofaPentagonaPapers,afirstatoaNewaYorkaTimesaandaWashingtonaPost,asetainamotionaaatrainaofaeventsathataultimatelyatoppledaaapresidentaandahelpedatoaendaanaunjustawar.aInfusedawithapoliticalapassionaandaturmoilaofaVietnamaera,aSecretsaisaataonceamemoiraofaaacommitted,adaringaman,aanainsider'saexposeaofaWashington,aandaaameditationaonameaningaofapatriotismaunderaaagovernmentaintoxicatedabyakeepingasecretsaEllsberg,aDanielaPentagonaPapersaVietnameseaConflict,a1961-1975aUnitedaStates