- Taschenbuch: 278 Seiten
- Verlag: Univ of California Pr; Auflage: Reprint (Mai 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0520213823
- ISBN-13: 978-0520213821
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,1 x 14,1 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.7 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.270.928 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Despite Americans' constitutional right to a free press, certain government information--particularly that concerning military affairs--has been placed beyond the realm of public access. A U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1971, however (brought about when the Nixon administration sued the the New York Times) knocked a howitzer-sized hole in that theory when the case allowed the New York Times and the Washington Post to print excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, a 7,000- page document regarding U.S. involvement in Vietnam. After years of poring over secret documents and transcripts, David Rudenstine has written the definitive analysis of the dramatic case in all its various contexts and from the perspectives of all the players. Clearly negotiating a maze of facts and legalese, The Day the Presses Stopped explains the powerful political forces at work behind the case, weighing the arguments of freedom of information versus national and diplomatic security in a vivid and engaging manner.
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Set to come out on the 25th anniversary of the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon Papers--the 7,000-page secret history of the government's Vietnam War decision-making commissioned by Robert S. McNamara in 1967--Rudenstine's book is a remarkable achievement. Law professor Rudenstine (Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School) has mined the primary and secondary sources, interviewed three dozen important players, and unearthed new evidence. The result: a very readable political narrative with scholarly analysis of the landmark case. The excerpts and analyses of the papers that ran in the New York Times represented the largest unauthorized disclosure of classified documents in American history. The Nixon administration's effort to stop the Times (and later the Washington Post) marked the first time in American history that the government had sued to prevent newspapers from disclosing information for national security reasons. District Judge Murray Gurfein's order to cease publishing the material in question was the first time an American judge had taken such action against a newspaper. This substantive book's value lies in the breadth of the narrative, the sharpness of Rudenstine's analyses of the case's legal aspects, and the author's surprising but persuasively argued conclusion that the papers ``contained information that could have seriously harmed national security if disclosed.'' The government was unable to convince a majority of the US Supreme Court of that fact. And, as Rudenstine points out, the newspapers did not publish anything that had a negative impact on peace talks or that compromised diplomatic initiatives outside Vietnam. The Supreme Court chose ``to risk the dangers inherent in a freer press because the alternative resolution--enhancing government power to censor the press--was even more threatening to a stable and vital democracy.'' Nothing less than the definitive account of the Pentagon Papers case. (37 b&w photographs) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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What's the author's problem? Alxheimer's or "selective memory?" He fails to mention the "joint trial of Dan Ellsberg AND Tony Russo" -- and Russo went to jail for civil resistance over the Pentagon Papers! -- and the author fails to mention the participation of renowned international law scholar Richard Falk. Surely with all the books Falk has in his home library here in Princeton, he must have purchased this one. Where's his response? Or would he rather forget his participation in this world-history-changing event? Further, there's nothing that would give a readers even a clue that the leak of the Pentagon Papers begat the downfall of Richard Nixon -- not just Watergate! Shame on you, Rudenstine!
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Rudenstine, a lawyer leaves out any consideration of international law. For example, he fails to even mention Professor Richard Falk of Princeton University who edited three thick volumes on international law and the Viet Nam War. Falk is the lawyer who is the leading authority on the Pentagon Papers. Rudenstine also gives short shrift to the trial that was the main reason for Nixon's fall (much moreso than the Watergate burglary): the Ellsberg- Russo Pentagon Papers Trial which came about as a result of my civil disobedience (refusing to testify before the Pentagon Papers grand jury and thus going to jail) in the summer of 1971. As a result of these omissions Rudenstine's book is seriously flawed.
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Rudenstine's book is a terrific read! The secret's in the pacing, because he steps through the events leading to the landmark Supreme Court ruling day-by-day, sometimes hour-by-hour. Because the Nixon administration sought preliminary injunctions against the Times and Post, the legal battle was fought over a few weeks, accelerating toward the end.
The author is unsparing in his criticism of the legal approaches used on all sides and points out errors and opportunities missed by judges, lawyers, defendants, and plaintiffs. The result is a less tidy view of what I had previously presumed was a cut-and-dried First Amendment case.
Forgive my low-brow tastes, fellow readers, but this book reminded me of Tom Clancy's first novel, The Hunt for Red October: It makes a thriller by tracing the technicalities swirling around a crisis. I wish there were a sequel.
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