“They were willing to send men and women to death to avoid being called losers.”“The security of the nation is not at the ramparts alone," the judge [Murray Gurfein] wrote in a passage that has been quoted ever since. Published
Steve Sheinkin rose to renown after the release of When Steve Sheinkin writes, readers listen, and for good reason. I knew that some documents had been leaked from the Pentagon that shed light on what was happening in Vietnam, but not much else. My uncles were kind of the same way. Non-fiction? (1972) Simon & Schuster, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4391-9376-1. Secrets : A memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers Alan Dale.
Notes on Cuban Missile Crisis
Viking Penguin, New York NY 2002, ISBN 0-670-03030-9.
Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets.
I learned more about the Vietnam War and the man who had the courage to expose the ways our government misled the public. August 14, 2018 by Misha Steier Daniel Ellsberg interviewed by New York Magazine 10, AKA Michael Fowler and John Doe No. Oh, and don't forget after you read it; spread the word !!!
Sheinkin's thrilling narrative and thorough research brought the Vietnam War and it's atrocities alive.
I was just a baby during the Vietnam war so I was very interested to learn about this part of history. The amount of governmental corruption that surrounded the Vietnam War is unbelievable. Department of Defense. En 1971, des dossiers secrets sur la guerre du Vietnam fuitent dans la presse. Item 000-067e Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau. Response to Iraq A War Worth Fighting Advance to Barbarism Strategic Bombing in World War Two
When Steve Sheinkin writes, readers listen, and for good reason. And, this book was well written and told in a way which made it compelling. The connections between Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden are timely and evoke interesting questions about the role of government and the facade of privacy via the Fourth Amendment. Cold comfort.Steven Sheinkin is one of my favorite history writers for young readers. Achetez neuf ou d'occasion My uncles were kind of the same way. But the idea that one person, out of pure stubbornness, could make such a huge difference in the lives of people he'd never met makes me want to stand up and cheer for humanity.I am equal parts horrified at how little I know about the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War and deeply depressed that our government is so duplicitous. Item 001-017f Cuban Missile Crisis 1962.
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The Great Migration was the movement of six million African Americans out of the South to urban areas in the Northeast, Midwest, and West between...In 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was one of the Pentagon insiders helping to plan a war in Vietnam. Even for me who has a vivid recollection of much that is in the book*, seeing those bumbling Plumbers at work, reading Nixon's comments, and being reminded of the horror of what we saw on the nightly news and newspapers as to what was going on in Southeast Asia made for a riveting reading experience. FBI notebook on Ellsberg
Now, unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that it’s totally incredible. This book made me remember why I hate politics because reading about crooked dealings and outright lies to the public just makes me feel so powerless and angry. And hopeful. “I didn’t lose the aptitude for that when I put out the Pentagon Papers.” This might come as a shock, considering that the former Defense Department analyst is best known for leaking classified information nearly half a century ago, thus bringing about a landmark legal precedent in favor of press freedom and, indirectly, hastening the end of both the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration. “At a time when nuclear dangers grow, along with activism to combat them—elevated just this week by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons receiving the Nobel Peace Prize—Ellsberg’s book is a timely reminder of the nuclear threat and essential reading in the Trump era.”[Snowden] is the quintessential American whistleblower, and a personal hero of mine, Leaks are the lifeblood of the republic and, for the first time, the American public has been given the chance to debate democratically the NSA’s mass surveillance programs.
However, I do enjoy history (if not too in depth) and, admittedly, I know little about the facts around the Vietnam War.
Covers part of top secret studies and memoranda from 1950-1954.A cache of documents relating to the cuban missile crisis.
Download books for free. Contains evidence and analysis of the role of lying, misinformation, and misunderstanding in causing nuclear crises, and possibly nuclear war. I hadn't really understood before how Nixon's response to the Pentagon Papers foreshadowed his Watergate crimes. "The Port Chicago 50" is the only other Sheinkin book I've read and it's good but not up to the level of "Most Dangerous" or "Bomb. Laos What is Nixon Up To
Letter to the editor responding to Ellsberg's op-ed The Day Castro Almost Started World War 3. It was very well narrated, too.This is the story of Ellsberg's release of 7,000 pages of Top Secret Pentagon papers revealing five president's continuing unsuccessful strategies in Vietnam. Engaging and useful history. The idea that the people we elected to represent us, out of pure stubbornness, would put so many lives in danger makes me want to shake my fist at the sky. In fact, I spent many afternoons after school watching the Watergate Hearings broadcast live on TV.
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