The Nightingale's Song

Robert Timberg, Author Free Press $16 (544p) ISBN 978-0-684-82673-8

Looking at the lives and careers of five Naval Academy graduates--among them John Poindexter and Oliver North--fellow alumnus Timberg probes the connections between the legacy of the Vietnam war and the Iran-Contra scandal. (Oct.)

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