"The Nightingale's Song" is the story of five Annapolis graduates--Oliver North, Bud McFarlane, John Poindexter, John McCain, and Jim Webb--who served in Vietnam and later became powerful players in Washington during the Reagan years. Robert Timberg examines how their experiences in Vietnam shaped their actions in government during the 1980s.
This account of Senator John McCains life, extracted from Timbergs highly acclaimed "The Nightingales Song," offers a revealing look at a remarkable American.
Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers, the talk show is one of television's most popular ...
Using the sandlot football team, Timberg evokes the time of the "twilight of innocence" that was the late 1950s and early 1960s, as a metaphor for the culture as a whole, one rooted in girls, beer and the big game. He shows where his nation stood at that eerie precipice in time.
In his long-awaited new book, Robert Timberg revives the powerful themes of courage, manhood, and loss in a strikingly personal exploration of America between the Good War and Vietnam. Using the New York City sandlot football team that he played for after high school as a rich metaphor for what was best about that bygone era, Timberg evokes in ...
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