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Starred Review on May 1, 2016 | Multimedia Review
Gr 7 Up—Here Sheinkin tells the story of activist and military analyst Daniel Ellsberg and the famous Pentagon Papers, which were written while the United States was still fighting the war in Vietnam. The top-secret study revealed the many subterfuges used over the course of four presidencies to prolong the war solely for political gain. Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were particularly complicit and made it known that they did not want to lose a war on "their watch." To that end, they went ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More