Books by Daniel Ellsberg and Complete Book Reviews

SECRETS: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
SECRETS: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg, Author . Viking $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-03030-9
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.
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Daniel Ellsberg. Bloomsbury, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60819-670-8
Ellsberg (Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers) mixes autobiography and history as he details the horrifying realities of America’s nuclear-weapons apparatus, with an aim to inspire future “courageous whistleblowers.” As a Harvard...
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Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe
Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope
Daniel Ellsberg. Bloomsbury, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-63973-551-8
The late activist and Pentagon Paper leaker Ellsberg (The Doomsday Machine), who died in 2023, muses in this roving collection on what motivates bureaucrats to comply with or resist corrupt directives. The book opens with essays on his fraught...
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