The Day the Presses Stopped: A History of the Pentagon Papers Case

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This bold account provides an original perspective on one of the most significant legal struggles in American history: the Nixon administrations efforts to prohibit the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing the 7 000-page top-secret Pentagon Papers which traced U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In his gripping account of this highly charged case Rudenstine examines new evidence raises difficult questions and challenges conventional views of a historic moment.