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| Author | Robert Timberg |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 544 |
| ISBN | 0-684-80301-1 |
| OCLC | 32015311 |
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| LC Class | E876 .T55 1995 |
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| Author | Robert Timberg |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Touchstone Books |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Media type | Softcover |
| Pages | 235 |
| ISBN | 0-684-86794-X |
The Nightingale's Song is a 1995 book byBaltimore Sun journalistRobert Timberg. It relates the military and political careers of five graduates of theUnited States Naval Academy, most of whom served during theVietnam War in either theUnited States Navy orUnited States Marine Corps:John McCain,Bud McFarlane,Oliver North,John Poindexter, andJim Webb. Timberg himself was also a Naval Academy graduate and served in Vietnam with the Marine Corps, where he was badly wounded.
The book examines how both the Annapolis and the Vietnam experiences shaped the different characters portrayed, and how it foreshadowed their political careers, and for some, their involvement in theIran-Contra affair.[1]
The Nightingale's Song received generally strong reviews, with Geoffrey Norman inAmerican Way stating that the individual narratives taken collectively "become something greater than the sum of their parts. They take the reader on an odyssey across some of the hardest terrain of recent American history."The New York Times listed it as a "Notable Book of the Year" andTime magazine selected it as one of the year's five best works of nonfiction. Its sales were modest.[2]
In 1999, while Senator John McCain wascampaigning for the Republican Party's nomination for president, Timberg excerpted the portions ofThe Nightingale's Song pertaining to McCain, augmented them with some early and recent biographical material, and put together another book,John McCain: An American Odyssey. It was in turn subsequently reissued by theFree Press in 2007, in conjunction withMcCain's 2008 presidential nomination campaign, with a new foreword containing some updates on McCain in the 2000s.
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