(NY), Viking, (2002). A memoir of Ellsberg's watershed release of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times during the Vietnam War, an act of civil disobedience for which he was charged with numerous felonies under the Espionage Act of 1917. (He was later acquitted due to government malfeasance in the case.) Inscribed by Ellsberg in the month prior to publication to Julia Butterfly Hill, best known for spending more than two years living in a 1000 year-old redwood tree in California to prevent it (and eventually all trees within a 200-foot radius) from being felled by the Pacific Lumber Company. Inscribed: "Sept 28, 2002/ To Julia Butterfly Hill/ With my deepest respect and thanks for giving your all to save all life on this blue planet -- for 'casting your whole vote...your whole influence' (see p. 263)./ Dan Ellsberg." Page 263 is where Ellsberg quotes Thoreau's "Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence," citing its effect on him after the 1968 election that brought Nixon to power. In the months just prior to this inscription, Hill had been jailed in Ecuador for protesting an Occidental Petroleum pipeline that was destroying a virgin Andean cloud forest. A great association copy, linking two devout believers in, and practitioners of, civil disobedience. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#033332] SOLD