He had other documents, even more jarring. When the author hurriedly copied the contents of his RAND Corporation safe to reveal, in time, what would become known as the Pentagon Papers, that was just the start of it. A must-read of the highest order, Ellsberg's profoundly awakening chronicle is essential to our future." - starred review, Booklist "Noted gadfly Ellsberg returns with a sobering look at our nuclear capabilities. Ellsberg concludes his dramatic elucidation of how the nuclear arsenal endangers all of life on Earth with steps for dismantling this Doomsday Machine. A real-life political thriller." - USA Today on SECRETS, "Gripping and unnerving. "A powerful testament for future students of a war that the United States should never have fought." - The Washington Post on SECRETS "An invaluable contribution to understanding one of our nation's darkest hours." - San Francisco Chronicle on SECRETS "Daniel Ellsberg risked everything to help end the Vietnam War. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful-and powerfully important-book about not just our country, but the future of the world. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Framed as a memoir-a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating-this gripping expos reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization-and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration-threatens our very survival. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. His pioneering research with the High Performance Institute led to Amazon’s Top 3 Business & Leadership Book of 2017, High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way.Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2017 List In These Times "Best Books of 2017" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's "Five Books Making News This Week" From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness expos of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. The High Performance Planner was created and field tested by Brendon Burchard, the world’s leading high performance coach and a #1 New York Times best-selling author, whose books include The Motivation Manifesto, The Charge, and Life’s Golden Ticket. Best-selling author Brendon Burchard says, “High performance means succeeding over the long term without compromising your health or positive relationships.” This Planner helps you do that by accounting for your entire life’s progress, not just your daily to-dos. Through morning mindset journal prompts, daily goal boxes, evening scorecards, weekly habit assessments, monthly project planning, and proprietary whole life balance sheets, the Planner helps you think more strategically, prioritize like a pro, achieve your goals faster, and become more focused, happy, and productive.īest of all, the Planner helps you install the personal and professional habits proven to lead to long-term success. The High Performance Planner is a 2-in-1 day planner and journal based on the world’s largest study of how high performers increase productivity, set goals, prioritize projects, outperform their peers, and create the positive mindset and habits needed to win the day.
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