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This multi-media resource list, SECRET INTELLIGENCE ON THE exposing corruption in compiled by Shaun Briley of the ROAD TO WAR government and industry. New San Diego Public Library, includes York : Basic Books, 1989. books, films and other materials Abella, Alex. Soldiers of The Glazers present a study of related to the issues presented in Reason: The RAND Corporation what happened to employees who the film The Most Dangerous and the Rise of the American risked their careers and lives to Man in America: Daniel Empire. : Mariner expose wrong doing in industry Ellsberg and the Pentagon Books, 2009. and government. Papers. This is a critical history of the RAND think-tank and its role not Katovsky, Bill. Patriots Act: In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading just in U.S. policy on Vietnam and Voices of Dissent and the Risk strategist, concludes but also its broader influence of Speaking Out. Guilford, that America’s role in the war is on American society. Conn.: Lyons, 2006. based on decades of lies. He leaks Katovsky profiles 20 Americans 7,000 pages of top-secret Johnson, Loch & Wirtz, James who have dissented from the documents to The New York (eds). Strategic Intelligence: current politics of the United Times, a daring act of conscience Windows into a Secret World. States during the "War on Terror." that leads directly to Watergate, New York: Oxford University President Nixon’s resignation and Press, 2007. Schrag, Peter. Test of Loyalty: the end of the Vietnam War. An anthology of articles about the Daniel Ellsberg and the Rituals Ellsberg and a who’s-who of way secret intelligence is of Secret Government. New Vietnam-era movers and shakers collected, analyzed and often York: Simon and Schuster, give a riveting account of those politicized as part of the policy 1975. world-changing events. making process. Schrag describes the seminal legal confrontation of the Pentagon McMaster, H. R. Dereliction of Papers trial, exploring a ADULT NONFICTION Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the generation’s conversion from blind Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the faith in institutional authority to a THE Lies That Led to Vietnam. New commitment to unearthing the York : HarperPerennial, 1998. truth. Block, Herbert. Herblock Archive material from the Joint Special Report. New York: Chiefs of Staff is used to back the Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Norton, 1974. assertion that warning signs about Shining Lie: Renowned political cartoonist Vietnam were suppressed for and America in Vietnam. New Herbert Block depicts Nixon’s political reasons. York: Modern Library, 2009. political life from 1940 – 1974. Written by Included in this remarkable Woodward, Bob. Plan of reporter who received the anthology of cartoons are Attack: The Definitive Account Pentagon Papers from Ellsberg, drawings of Nixon’s attempts to of the Decision to Invade Iraq. Sheehan gives us this Pulitzer- curb public information through New York : Simon & Schuster, Prize winning account of the army government control of the press. 2004. field advisor who secretly briefed Woodward, a renowned Watergate reporters on failures and atrocities Prados, John & Porter, reporter, outlines the Bush that were being kept quiet. Margaret Pratt. Inside the administration’s manipulation of Pentagon Papers. Lawrence, questionable secret intelligence to Wrong, Michela. It’s Our Turn Kan.: University Press of create a case for war. to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Kansas, 2004. Whistle- Blower. New York: Prados and Porter use more WHISTLE BLOWERS Harper-Collins Publishers, recently declassified documents to 2009. reexamine the impact of the Ellsberg, Michael and Marc S. In January 2003, Kenya—seen as Pentagon Papers leak, which led Gerstein. Flirting With the most stable country in Africa— to attempts to restrain the press Disaster: Why Accidents Are was hailed as a model of and contributed to Nixon’s Rarely Accidental. New York: after the peaceful downfall. Union Square Press, 2010. election of its new president, Mwai Using case studies ranging from Kibaki. By appointing respected Rudenstine, David. The Day natural disasters and industrial longtime reformer John Githongo the Presses Stopped: A History accidents to Enron and the sub- as anticorruption czar, the new of the Pentagon Papers. prime lending crisis, Flirting with Kikuyu government signaled its Berkeley, Calif.: University of Disaster examines the determination to end the corrupt California Press, 1996. psychological, cultural and practices that had tainted the Rudenstine reveals the internal institutional impediments to previous regime. Yet only two debates of The New York Times whistle-blowing. Forward and years later, Githongo himself was and the Nixon Whitehouse afterward provided by Daniel on the run, having discovered that regarding secret government Ellsberg. the new administration was documents and the ultimate ruthlessly pillaging public funds. victory for the press in court Glazer, Myron & Glazer, Michela Wrong's account of how a proceedings. Penina. : pillar of the establishment turned

Delve Deeper into The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers A film by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith whistle-blower grips like a political Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets: a Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard thriller. memoir of Vietnam and the to the Nixon White House to the Pentagon Papers. New York: penitentiary as Watergate's least THE PRESS IN WAR Viking, 2002. known co-conspirator. Ellsberg provides a personal Hallin, Daniel. The account of his struggle with the "Uncensored War": The Media secrets and misinformation that and Vietnam. Berkeley: shaped American foreign policy NON-FICTION FOR YOUNG University of California Press, during the Vietnam era. ADULTS 1989.

This is a myth busting account of Graham, Gael. Young Activists: coverage of the Vietnam War American High School which details what Americans ADULT FICTION Students in the Age of Protest. actually read and saw, proving : Northern Illinois that in fact the media mostly Darby, E. Leo. Confirmed or University Press, 2006. followed the government’s Denied. Bloomington: Graham provides an imaginative perspective. AuthorHouse, 2009. and thorough account of high

Written by Darby after 46 years in school student in Sweeney, Michael. The Military the intelligence community, this response to the turbulence of the and the Press: An Uneasy thriller gives us an inside look at 1960s. Truce. Evanston : how intelligence communities Northwestern University operate. Halpin, Mikki. It's Your World-- Press, 2006. If You Don't Like It, Change It: A history of relations between the Greene, Graham. The Quiet Activism for Teenagers. New media and the military over the American. New York: Penguin York: Simon Pulse, 2004. last century, Sweeney shows how Classics, 1991. Grade 9 Up–Haplin provides the military has evolved new A young, idealistic American is background information on forms of censorship and sent to Vietnam to promote various social movements and propaganda. democracy through a mysterious suggestions for how to continue

“Third Force.” Greene draws on action. Animal rights, racism, war Wyatt, Clarence. Paper his experiences as a former SIS protest, AIDS, school violence and Soldiers: The American Press spy for Britain in World War II and bullying, women's rights, and and the Vietnam War. New a former journalist in Saigon from promoting tolerance are among York : W.W. Norton, 1993. 1951 to 1954 where he reported the topics covered here. Each Wyatt draws on research that on the French colonial war. section is accompanied by suggests the American media authentic accounts of student mostly reported official statements Just, Ward. A Dangerous experiences, encouraging young about the war with relatively little Friend. New York: Mariner people to become critical activists dissent and that by the end of the Books, 2000. in their communities. war the credibility of the press had Former war correspondent Ward been as damaged as that of the Just tells the story of an American Hudson, David L. Open government. group of aid and international Government: An American

development workers who travel Tradition Faces National BOOKS BY DANIEL ELLSBERG to Vietnam to “assist” the Security, Privacy, and Other

Vietnamese. The group soon finds Challenges. New York: Facts Ellsberg, Daniel. Protest and out, however, that they are on File, 2005. Survive. New York: Monthly actually covertly linked to the In the wake of 9/11, the question Review Press, 1981. Pentagon. of how much the government Ellsberg, along with collaborators should tell the people has become Dan Smith and E. Thompson, Mailer, Norman. The Armies of a controversial one. examines the realities and the Night: The Novel as David Hudson provides a implications of U.S. Nuclear History, History as a Novel. contemporary examination of the strategy, asserting that it is a New York: First Plume controversy of government strategy we can resist. Printing, 1994. transparency.

Mailer creates his own genre for Ellsberg, Daniel. Risk, the narrative, split into Ambiguity and Decision historicized and novelized (Studies in Philosophy). New accounts of the October 1967 York: Garland Publishing Inc., FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES March on the Pentagon. 2001. Risk, Ambiguity and

Decision is Ellsberg’s 1962 “Hearts & Minds.” A film by Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird. New Harvard doctoral dissertation in Peter Davis. Criterion York: Dell Publishing, 1979. in which he outlines his Collection, 1974. (112 min) Vonnegut’s wry tale of the radial decision theory, profoundly Winner of the 1974 Academy activities of bumbling bureaucrat challenging the dominant theories Award for Best Documentary, this on rational decision making. film examines the causes of American involvement in the Vietnam War.

Delve Deeper into The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers A film by Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith

“In the Year of the Pig.” A film by Emile de Antoni, Homevision, 1969. (103 min) Shot at the height of the conflict, this is a critical account of America’s escalating involvement in Vietnam, depicting the historical roots of the war.

“The .” A film by Nonny De La Pena, 2009. (50 min) A portrait of Charles Hamel who blew the whistle on big oil in Alaska and found himself the target of a major undercover sting that threatened the lives of Hamel's whistleblowers in Alaska and even targeted a senior Congressman.

“Silkwood.” A film by Mike Nichols, 1983. (131 min) This dramatic film is based on the true story of Karen Silkwood (), a rank-and-file worker at a plutonium factory, who was accidentally exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. Historically, the company downplayed employee complaints about radiation sickness, much to Silkwood's frustration. Her own ordeal made Silkwood an activist. When she was about to go public with evidence of the company's poor safety record, the corporate powers went to extreme lengths to ensure that Silkwood's story was never told.