Inside the Pentagon Papers

Informationen zum Autor John Prados is the author of numerous books including Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War. Margaret Pratt Porter is director of communications and publications for Vietnam Veterans of America. Klappentext Providing for the first time transcripts of previously secret White House telephone tapes, and drawing upon a wealth of oral history and previously classified documents, this book addresses the legal and moral issues that resonate today as debates continue over government secrecy and democracy's requisite demand for truthfully informed citizens. Zusammenfassung The consequences of the leak made to the press about the secret government study on the Vietnam War and the subsequent litigation are reexamined in a study that focuses on the issue of government secrecy and the public's right to know.

Product details

• Authors: John Prados, Margaret Pratt Porter
• Assisted by: Margaret Pratt Porter (Editor), John Prados (Editor)
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2005
• EAN: 9780700614233
• ISBN: 978-0-7006-1423-3
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 237 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Modern War Studies; Modern War Studies (Paperback); Modern War Studies (Paperback); Modern War Studies
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous