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Published by The New York Times in , The Pentagon Papers riveted an already deeply divided nation with startling and disturbing revelations about the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated that the government had systematically lied to both the public and to Congress. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize—winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception, and shed some light on issues in the past and the present so that we can better understand and improve the future.

Herringhas culled the best of the high-level memorandathat constituted the project. Herringintroduces the work with a concise narrative which discusses the gestation of the papers and the Nixon administration's lugubrious legal efforts to stall their publication. He includes brief remarks at the beginning of each section and document, and summarizes the selections in extraneous parts. The author of the first and perhaps the best scholarly examination of the war, Herring's commentary provides the needed context to each document and illustrates its importancein the overall development of Vietnam policy.

At the end of the work is a valuable historiographicalessay on the literaturerelating to the papers. From a reading of this work, the student will realize that the U. All the major decisions are included: early commitment to the French effort, American assumption of the stewardship of the war after Dien Bien Phu, encouragement of the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem, the debate over escalation in , and the post-Tet Offensive reassessment.

As involvement intensified in scale, and finally became massive, cleavage in Washington arose, especially catalyzed by the ineffectiveness of the bombing campaign. Appropriately, the volume ends with the failings of the Vietnam policy proven out by Tet and the concomitant beginning of America's withdrawal from the conflict. This content downloaded from The papers, originally compiled by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's "whiz kids," have a definite "dovish"slant againstthe escalationpolicy.

Althoughthe polarizationaccompanyingthe papers no longer prevails among contemporarystudents, the reader must consider the substanceof each documentcarefully. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.

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