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008			150723s2015 nyuaf 001 0aeng
020			_a9780143127598
020			_a0143127594
020			_a1594205663
020			_a9781594205668
035			_a(UkOxU)020896759
035			_a(UkOxU)020896759BIB01
035			_a(OCoLC)914452536 _z(OCoLC)893894770 _z(OCoLC)914463828
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050		4	_aCT275.T6416 _bA3 2015
082	0	4	_a070.92 _aB _223
100	1		_aTimberg, Robert, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBlue-eyed boy : _ba memoir / _cRobert Timberg.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2015.
300			_a304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aFrom journalist Robert Timberg, a memoir of the struggle to reclaim his life after being severely burned as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam. In January 1967, Robert Timberg was a short-timer, counting down the days until his combat tour ended. He had thirteen days to go when his vehicle struck a Viet Cong land mine, resulting in third-degree burns of his face and much of his body. He survived, barely, then began the arduous battle back, determined to build a new life and make it matter. Remarkable as was his return to health--he endured no less than thirty-five operations--perhaps more remarkable was his decision to reinvent himself as a journalist, one of the most public of professions. Blue-Eyed Boy is a gripping, occasionally comic account of what it took for an ambitious man, aware of his frightful appearance but hungry for meaning and accomplishment, to master a new craft amid the pitying stares and shocked reactions of many he encountered on a daily basis. Timberg was at the top of his game as White House correspondent for The Baltimore Sun when suddenly his work brought his life full circle: the Iran-Contra scandal broke. At its heart were three fellow Naval Academy graduates and Vietnam-era veterans. Timberg's coverage of that story resulted in his first book, The Nightingale's Song, a powerful work of narrative nonfiction that follows the three academy graduates most deeply involved in Iran-Contra--Oliver North among them--as well as two other well-known Navy men, John McCain and James Webb, from the academy through Vietnam and into the Reagan years. In Blue-Eyed Boy, Timberg relates how he came to know these five men and how their stories helped him understand the ways the Vietnam War and the furor that swirled around it continue to haunt the nation, even now, nearly four decades after its dismal conclusion. Timberg is no saint, and he has traveled a hard and often bitter road.
600	1	0	_aTimberg, Robert.
610	2	0	_aUnited States Naval Academy _xAlumni and alumnae _vBiography.
650		0	_aJournalists _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aMarines _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aBurns and scalds _xPatients _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aBurns and scalds _xPatients _xRehabilitation.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _xVeterans _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aIran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990 _vBiography.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _zUnited States _xPsychological aspects.
650		4	_aVietnam War, 1961-1975 _vPersonal narratives, American.
942			_2ddc _cBOOKS
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