american twilight television nonfiction

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65 reviews
Robert Timberg

Free Press, 1996

This is an important book
The "Nightingales's Song" is a remarkable story. I know three of the five characters, (McCain, McFarlane, and Webb), and truly admire them all. This book is a great piece of reporting, and is more relevant today than it was when it was first published. Admiral Jim Stavridis, still on the front lines of history, and a wonderful writer as well, said this book is a, "Greek tragedy," and is, "no ...

John McCain: An American Odyssey

8 reviews
Robert Timberg

Free Press, 2007

An Intriguing Unbiased Account of McCain
John McCain may be a character that is currently considered either in love or hate, but either of those opinions could be well challenged by the facts presented in this well-written account of the Senator's life. From his boyhood in the shadow of his father and grandfather (both US admirals themselves) to his escapades at the Academy and then into his heroic tenure in Vietnam, this book does ...

The Nightingale's Song/Life on the Color Line/My War/Poison Mind (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, ...
Robert Timberg, Gregory Howard Williams, ...

Reader's Digest Association, 1995

Includes photographs in some of the stories

State of Grace: A Memoir of Twilight Time

5 reviews
Robert Timberg

Wheeler Publishing, 2005

A memoir for all times
This memoir will never be dated. The son of a Ziegfield girl and an aspiring songwriter Timberg's book has you rooting for him from the beginning as challenge after challenge threaten to keep him down. He pulls himself into manhood and takes us with him in this superbly crafted work. His goal, Annapolis, is preceded by two years of trying to obtain an appointment. During this interregnum, ...

Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Show (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)

3 reviews
Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler

University of Texas Press, 2002

Television Talk Comprehensive and Fascinating
"Television Talk: . . ." guides one through our most popular television talk shows in the United States, beginning in the 50's with Edward R. Murrow and Jack Paar. It delivers a critical, objective, comprehensive and increasingly insightful view of the evolution of "talk shows" with respect to content and tone. And it reveals the significant influence host personalities from Dick Cavett to ...