Robert Timberg: 4 books
Blue-Eyed Boy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Acclaimed journalist Robert Timberg’s extraordinary, long-awaited memoir of his struggle to reclaim his life and find his calling after being severely burned as a young Marine lieutenant in Vietnam
In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat...
State of Grace
A Memoir of Twilight Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
From the author of the critically acclaimed The Nightingale's Song ("An amazing piece of work...This is a stunning book" -- Boston Globe), comes an evocative, elegiac and rollicking portrait of America.
The Nightingale's Song was Robert Timberg's extraordinary tale of well-intentioned but ill-starred...
John McCain
An American Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
From the Naval Academy to the POW camps of Vietnam to Capitol Hill and possibly to the White House -- one of America's most remarkable men
In 1998, at the dedication of the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, former Attorney General Griffin Bell, a Democrat, introduced Senator...
Television Talk
A History of the TV Talk Show
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
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,...