Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War in 2016 Hub Reading Challenge

Jun 14, 2016 Amy! rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction, audiobook, history, young-adult, yalsa-hub-challenge-2016, zzz2016-male-authors

This is my second war/history book in a row, and it's ALSO really good! I learned so much from this one, too! The story was engaging and fascinating, and holy wow, Nixon was ... not good.

I'm just really glad that more narrative non-fiction like this is being published for teens, as this is the kind of thing that would have gotten me really interested in reading more about history when I was a teen. ...more

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Feb 12, 2016 JennRoxx rated it really liked it

This award winning non-fiction book for teens has gotten me all excited about good non-fiction again. Full disclosure, I listened to this book. However, it was amazing all of the things about government lies and cover-ups that we should all know about, but don't. Daniel Ellsberg, our fearless protagonist, fought hard to show us how these kinds of non-transparencies in government are not welcome and we should all be fighting just as hard. However, the brief mentions of Edward Snowden in the Epilo ...more

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Jan 13, 2016 Julie Trapp rated it really liked it

Much better than Bomb and Port Chicago 50. I am not much of a non-fiction reader, but this one was interesting in that I was considerably younger when these events took place & remember VERY little about them. Daniel Ellsberg's name was familiar, but I knew nothing of what was happening. And - I should have since I was not a youngster. Solidified my thoughts about RR and RMN, & really opened my eyes to some of the facts of the Vietnam War. Good choice for the Non-Fiction Award finalist. ...more

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Dec 27, 2015 Robin rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015, nonfiction, history, young-adult, mock-printz-2016

A gripping account of the Vietnam War and the release of the Pentagon Papers. Like with his other books, Sheinkin presents history as thrilling and relevant to today.

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