Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Steve Sheinkin

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War won the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award, was a National Book Award finalist, a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon book, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature finalist, and was selected for the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People List. In 1964, Daniel Ellsberg was a U.S. government analyst, helping to plan a war in Vietnam. It was the height of the Cold War, and the government would do anything to stop the spread of communism—with or without the consent of the American people. As the fighting in Vietnam escalated, Ellsberg turned against the war. He had access a top-secret government report known as the Pentagon Papers, and he knew it could blow the lid off of years of government lies. But did he have the right to expose decades of presidential secrets? And what would happen to him if he did it? A lively book that interrogates the meanings of patriotism, freedom, and integrity, Most Dangerous further establishes Steve Sheinkin as a leader in children's nonfiction.