
Secrets
A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
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Narrated by:
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Daniel Ellsberg
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Dan Cashman
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By:
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Daniel Ellsberg
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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Critic reviews
"A remarkable and riveting story." (Publishers Weekly)
"The story is fascinating, and one that anyone interested in Vietnam should hear. Ellsberg has a gruff voice, and he gives a true measure of himself as he reads his story." (AudioFile)
"Ellsberg's deft critique of secrecy in government is an invaluable contribution to understanding one of our nation's darkest hours." (San Francisco Chronicle)
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A truly amazing listen.
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excellent supplement
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Great book, informative and interesting
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There’s more than I’d recalled esp going back to 1945 as start of Vietnam fight for independence.
This is great retelling without just a reading of entire PP. kudos to all involved.
Can’t help but think that today Nixon would get away with it all No senators would dare risk their careers— & imagine if J Edgar still ruled over fbi & nearly everything else.
The good news: Vietnam war finally ended after so many lies upon lies, decade after decade. So many of our boys dead. So many Vietnamese dead. For what.
May our nation under fact based reality & rule of law persevere.
Truth & facts mattered at long last
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5 stars for an account of a 5-star fiasco
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The narration by Dan Cashman was excellent, and the portions read by Daniel Ellsberg himself made the book so personal and an even richer experience.
Outstanding!!
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This book is also very interesting because Ellsberg discusses in great detail how he changed from a Cold Warrior to a Progressive person who learned over many years how to think for himself. He goes into exceptional detail about the Gulf of Tonkin, to which he was privy to Top Secret memos at the time of the supposed attacks.
This is a must-read for anyone who is interested in the Vietnam War, the US government's involvement and the many US administrations that kept the war going, and why.
Insight to Vietnam War and US policies
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very in-depth analysis
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The story, though read with a general sobriety, was nonetheless filled with moments of intensity - exactly what you'd hope for when hearing the story of someone knowingly breaking the law and throwing his career away in order to tell the American people what the "deciders" in government knew about Vietnam, and deliberately ignored, in its arrogant zeal to, well...., just in its zeal.
Still Cogent Today
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Filling the cracks of history.
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