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Wild Man - The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg (Paperback)
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Wild Man - The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg (Paperback)
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On September 4, 1971, the office of Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist
practicing in Los Angeles, was broken into. It looked like a run of
the mill drug raid. A month later, a homeless man was charged with
burglary and the case was considered closed. On June 17, 1972, five
men were charged with breaking and entering at the headquarters of
the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel in
Washington, D.C. With these two burglaries, one seemingly innocuous
while the other was more serious because of the venue, the scandal
known as Watergate was born. As the tale of Richard Nixon and his
Plumbers began to unfold, it was discovered that one of Lewis
Fielding's patients was Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the
Pentagon Papers to the New York Times . Ellsberg was high on
Nixon's list of enemies and he vowed to destroy him at all costs.
In Wild Man , Tom Wells explores the life of Daniel Ellsberg to
discover what makes an individual enact the most severe breach of
government security ever to occur in the United States. As Wells
follows Ellsberg from his early days as a piano prodigy to his
years of great promise at Harvard, we see the development of a
volatile, narcissistic loner with a voracious sexual appetite, a
highly developed intelligence and, most importantly, the
overwhelming need to take centre stage in the pageant known as
America. In Wild Man , Tom Wells creates an unforgettable picture
of Daniel Ellsberg, an American Everyman for the seventies who
embodied the promise and paranoia of that uncertain time. This is a
thrilling piece of biography that will stand as one of the great
American portraits.
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