The publication of the Pentagon Papers is remembered as a triumph of press freedom. The deeper lesson — about institutional deception and its durability — is less often drawn.
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history
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The Pentagon Papers at Fifty-Plus: What We Actually Learned -
The First Gilded Age Ended. Here Is What It Took. The concentration of wealth and power in the late nineteenth century looked permanent until it didn't. The mechanisms of change are worth studying carefully.