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Author: Daniel Ellsberg
First Published: 2002
Type of Work: Autobiography
Time of Work: August, 1964, to May, 1973
Setting: The United States and South Vietnam
Principal Characters: Daniel Ellsberg, Henry Kissinger, Robert S. McNamara, John T. McNaughton, Richard Milhous Nixon
Genres: Nonfiction
Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, Vietnam War, War, Bombs, Presidents, Southeast Asia, Intelligence service, Vietnam or Vietnamese people, Statesmen, Cambodia or Cambodians, Military art or science
Locales: United States, South Vietnam

On the evening of October 1, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg smuggled a briefcase full of top secret documents past RAND Corporation security guards and was up all night duplicating parts of the seven-thousand-page Defense Department study subsequently known as the Pentagon Papers. He had crossed his private rubicon from loyalist to whistleblower, or worse (in the eyes of some), traitor. Five years and two months previously, on his first full day at the Pentagon, the Tonkin Gulf incident was unfolding in the South China Sea off the coast of North Vietnam. The thirty- three-year-old former marine,...

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