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Beyond the Booth
Merrill's Fifty Years with the EaglesCindy Reese and Merrill Reese
Temple University Press, 2027
Merrill Reese is the longest tenured radio play-by-play announcer in the history of the NFL. He has been with the Philadelphia Eagles since 1977, covering the team’s players, coaches, and owners in locker rooms, on the sidelines, and on road trips.
Beyond the Booth is a heartfelt history of the Eagles as recounted by Reese in conversation with the interviewer who knows him best—his wife, Cindy. Reese shares his memories and recollections of the team from the Dick Vermeil years through the Nick Sirianni era. (Spoiler alert: he was no Chip Kelly fan.) Cindy draws out her husband’s observations on the authenticity of the team’s personalities and leaders and how they make it successful. Merrill also describes his relationships with his broadcast colleagues and players, including Jalen Hurts.
With her insider perspective, Cindy knows what to ask for Merrill to share his thoughts on his connection with the fans and success as a broadcaster, such as how performing in TV commercials as a child helped him develop his keen memorization skills. (She uses flashcards to test Merrill on players.)
Reese’s passion for the game, shared by his wife, is infectious. Beyond the Booth will excite every Eagles fan.
Eagles on Their Buttons
A Black Infantry Regiment in the Civil WarVersalle F. Washington
University of Missouri Press, 1999
Eagles on Their Buttons is a fascinating examination of the Fifth Regiment of Infantry, United States Colored Troops—the Union Army's first black regiment from Ohio. Although the Fifth USCT was one of more than 150 regiments of black troops making up more than 10 percent of the Union Army at the end of the war, it was unique. The majority of USCT regiments were made up of freed men who viewed the army as an escape from slavery and a chance to take up arms against their former masters. The men serving in the 5th USCT, however, were freemen who were raised in a northern state and saw serving in the army both as a way to gain equal rights under the law and as an opportunity to prove their worth as men.
Because historians have written little on this subject, many Americans believe that African Americans simply received their freedom with the Emancipation Proclamation. They know nothing about the struggles these courageous people endured to gain their independence. Now, by incorporating personal documents, letters, diaries, and official records, Eagles on Their Buttons sheds important new light on this unfamiliar aspect of the Civil War. Versalle Washington shows what caused the soldiers in the Fifth USCT to join their regiment, what sort of men they were, and how they fought and lived as African American soldiers under white officers. He discusses the regiment's service, addressing its role in the siege of Petersburg, the battle of Chapin's Farm, and the capture of Fort Fisher and the port of Wilmington. Washington also looks at what effects the soldiers' service had in terms of societal changes following the Civil War.
Eagles on Their Buttons is a fresh contribution to Civil War scholarship and will be welcomed by professional historians and amateur Civil War buffs alike.
This book is part of the University of Missouri Press' Shades of Blue and Gray series.
Like Ghosts of Eagles
Robert Francis
University of Massachusetts Press, 1974
Marianne Moore said of Robert Francis's poetry, “He is so penetrating, delicate, and wise, one goes away without having said a word, merely grateful to have received so much.”
Francis readers will welcome this new volume of verse which features poems in the whole technical gamut of Francis styles, including word count, with which he first delighted critics in Come out into the Sun.
Like Ghosts of Eagles also presents for the first time entirely new Francis styles and techniques. Such poems as “Bloodstains,” “Going to the Funeral,” and “Silent Poem” are distinguished by “fragmented surface,” a technique in which single words or short phrases are delivered without connecting tissue. Also new to his work are poems in which sentences are fused together in one continuous stream, as in “The Mountain,” “The Righteous,” and “The Peacock.”
The works are equally diversified in mood, ranging from the bitterly satirical through the elegiac, lyrical and playful, to poems of pure celebration. “Few others writing today work with such fragile sounds and with such delicate, almost pastel perceptions,” wrote David Clark upon first reading the manuscript of Like Ghosts of Eagles.