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Most Dangerous
Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
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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.
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Biographies, Biography, Juvenile works, Juvenile literature, juvenile audience, Biography Juvenile literature, Juvenile Nonfiction, Young Adult Nonfiction, political biography, history, foreign relations, military and wars, Vietnam War, Diplomatic relations, Employees, Politics and government, Whistle blowing, Rand Corporation, Pentagon Papers, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Military & Wars, Reading list, 2016 Summer, Highland Park High School, 20th Century, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, juvenile literature, New York Times reviewed, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, History, Foreign relationsPeople
Daniel Ellsberg, Carol Cummings, Patricia (Marx) Ellsberg, Robert Ellsberg, Mary Ellsberg, Lewis Fielding, Randy Kehler, Tony Russo, Harry Rowen, Lynda Sinay, John Paul Vann, Howard Zinn (1922-2010), Harry S. Truman, Dwight D.Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Claudia Johnson, Hubert Huphrey, Dean Rusk Robert McNamara, John McNaughton, McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow, John McCone, Bob Komer, Richard Nixon, Pat Nixon, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bob Haldeman, John Mitchell, Henry Kissinger, Mort Halperin, Melvin Laird, Ron Ziegler, Erwin Griswold, Charles Colson, John Dean, John Ehrlichman, Egil Korgh, G. Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt, David Young Kathy Chenow, Steve, Bernard Barker, Felip DeDiego, Eugenio Martinez, James McCord, Earle Wheeler, John McConnell, William Westmoreland, Ulysses Sharp, John Herrick, James Stockdale, Everett Alvarez, Philip Caputo, John McCain, John Kerry, Victor Krulak, Wayne Morse, William Fulbright, Norvil Jones, Barry Goldwater, Everett Dirksen, George McGovern, Mike Gravel, Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Tat Thanh), Nguyen Van Thieu, Le Duc Tho, Bui Diem, Neil Sheehan, Abe Rosenthal, James Goodale, Hedrick Smith, Arthur Sulzberger, Louis Loeb, Katherine Graham, Ben Bradlee, Ben Bagdikian, Thomas Winship, Tom Oliphant, Gordon Manning, Walter Cronkite, Matthew Byrne, Murray Gurfein, Alexander Bickel, Floyd Abrams, Charlie Nesson, David NissenPlaces
United States, Vietnam, The Pentagon, Watergate Hotel, CaliforniaTimes
20th century, 1961-1975, 1969-1974Showing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
2015, Roaring Brook Press
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Epilogue: History Repeats.
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Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War is a 2015 non-fiction book, aimed for young adolescent readers, written by Steve Sheinkin and published through Roaring Brook Press. The multi-award-winning book tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg's role in the Vietnam War and the Pentagon Papers.
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