Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers Viking Books Oct 2002 isbn: 0670030309 $29.95 buy

Daniel Ellsberg, October 17

Thursday, 6pm
Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston Street, Boston
free and open to public

Daniel Ellsberg began his career as the coldest of cold warriors--a U. S. Marine company commander, a Pentagon analyst, and a staunch supporter of America's battle against Communist expansion. But in October 1969, Ellsberg--fully expecting to spend the rest of his life in prison--set out to turn around American foreign policy by smuggling out of his office the seven-thousand-page top-secret study, known as the Pentagon Papers, of U.S. decision making in Vietnam. Now, for the first time, Ellsberg tells the full story of how and why he became one of the nation's most impassioned and influential anti-war activists--and how his actions helped alter the course of U.S. history.