At the height of a spectacular career that spanned four administrations, Daniel Ellsberg chose a new course he believed would land him in prison for the rest of his life. He smuggled out of his office a 7,000 page top-secret study of US decision-making in Vietnam from 1945-1968, and he leaked it to the New York Times.
How did the coldest of warriors come to turn against his own government? In Secrets, Ellsberg finally tells the full story.
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 profoundly altered his own political thinking. And he tells how the release of the Pentagon Papers 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 the memoir of a daring man, a story about what it takes to make a dramatic life-change in the context of moral challenge, an expose of Washington power politics, and a searing portrait of America at a perilous modern crossroads
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"A great memoir about Ellsberg's brave decision to release the Pentagon Papers. Some parts were a little dry, but he clearly wanted to give a thorough and detailed history of what happened. Wonder what the government is lying about these days...
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Jessica (4 out of 5 stars)