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Writing the memoir took the cooperation of his entire family, Ellsberg says, including rapid-fire e-mail editing exchanges with his sons...
...Ellsberg waited three decades to begin writing Secrets: Revealing the Pentagon Papers, as the memoir will be called. In the intervening years, Ellsberg felt other causes deserved his immediate attention...
After the Vietnam War ended, Ellsberg demanded that Congress cut off funding for the nuclear arms race and atomic testing...
...crusade took him from Capitol Hill to German nuclear testing sites to anti-nuclear rallies in Central Park. Ellsberg estimates he was arrested between 60 and 70 times in acts of civil disobedience in the late 1970s and 1980s...
...three-year stint on Capitol Hill with the Physicians for Social Responsibility, a lobbying group advocating the end of nuclear proliferation, ended in the mid-1990s. And Ellsberg finally began to work on his long-anticipated memoirs of the Vietnam and Pentagon Papers years...