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084    BIO026000|2bisacsh 
100 1  Timberg, Robert,|eauthor. 
245 10 Blue-eyed boy :|ba memoir /|cRobert Timberg. 
264  1 New York :|bThe Penguin Press,|c2014. 
300    304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations 
       ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
505 0  Prologue: Mirror, mirror on the wall -- Short-timer -- War
       stories -- Sleepless days, sleepless nights -- Janie -- 
       Where's the burn? -- Wasting away in Yokohamaville -- Lynn
       -- The skin game -- Nut-cutting time (1) -- The Wichita 
       lineman -- Sylvia Samurai -- Nut-cutting time (2) -- Cub 
       reporter -- Grilling the preacher -- Like a marine to mud 
       -- The knight errant -- A fish story -- Scarsdale Galahad 
       -- Kansas City here I come -- Red Chief -- Walking the 
       ground -- Punch-drunk -- The great escape -- The pink 
       bathrobe year -- Anybody's kid -- Breaking the plane -- 
       The Nieman effect -- Ollie, Bud, and John -- The banality 
       of evil -- The private war of Ollie and Jim -- Five 
       characters in search of an author -- The nightingale's 
       song -- Identity crisis -- Talking the talk -- The crown 
       prince -- Hoosiers -- Stalking the Admiral -- Bud -- Call 
       Ollie -- Friends in high places -- The kick-ass troubadour
       -- Lost -- Full circle -- Highs and lows -- Epilogue: The 
       footlocker. 
520 2  "From 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. In facing his own remarkable life with the same 
       tools of wisdom, human empathy, and storytelling grit he 
       brought to his journalism, he has produced one of the most
       moving and important memoirs of our time"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Timberg, Robert. 
610 20 United States Naval Academy|xAlumni and alumnae
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Journalists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Marines|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Burns and scalds|xPatients|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Burns and scalds|xPatients|xRehabilitation. 
650  0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|xVeterans|zUnited States
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990|vBiography. 
650  0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|xSocial aspects|zUnited States. 
650  0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|zUnited States|xPsychological 
       aspects. 
650  0 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. 
650  0 Universities and colleges|xAlumni and alumnae. 
650  0 Veterans. 
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