Secrets A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670030309 . DJ shows light shelf wear, the book shows some wear, light soil front page edges . ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 498 pages; "Ellsberg's transformation from cold warrior and Defense Department analyst to impassioned antiwar crusader who released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in June 1971 makes a remarkable and riveting story that still shocks 30 years later. Avoiding, for the most part, self-justification and self-aggrandizement, he clearly relates the experiences that led him to reject as arrogant lies the premises six presidents presented to the public and Congress to secure support for the Vietnam War. He describes the disjunction between what he saw during visits to Vietnam in the early and mid-'60s, driving through dangerous Viet Cong-held territory, and what was told to the press and public. And he recalls his first reading of the classified documents later known as the Pentagon Papers, which exposed the motives, in his view unprincipled, behind American involvement in Vietnam." .