Most Dangerous
Subtitle: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Edition: 1st edition (1)
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781596439528
Copyright date: 2015
Description: 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
Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Feasibility Study --; title: Part I. Insider --; title: Part II. Secrets and Lies --; title: Part III. Outsider --; title: Epilogue: History Repeats.