Charles Euchner: 5 books
The Last Nine Innings
Inside the Real Game Fans Never See
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
"The Last Nine Innings is the last word on the inside of baseball. It's full of wonderful revelations and perceptions that help us understand the game in ways that we might never have imagined. Charlie Euchner has done a marvelous job in getting players to talk, simply, about how they play, and...
Nobody Turn Me Around
A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
On August 28, 1963, over a quarter-million people—about two-thirds black and one-third white—held the greatest civil rights demonstration ever. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” oration. And just blocks away, President Kennedy and Congress skirmished over landmark...
Extraordinary Politics
How Protest And Dissent Are Changing American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Political protest and social movementstheir history; their cyclical development; their organization, strategies, and tacticsconstitute what Charles Euchner calls extraordinary politics, an antidote to the breakdown of politics-as-usual and a necessary, if not sufficient, condition of democracy. Activists...
Little League, Big Dreams
The Extraordinary Story of Baseball's Most Improbable Champions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
It's just like the pros: bright lights, screaming fans, squawking commentators and five million people watching you play your heart out on national television for the right to be called champions. But these are not pampered multimillion-dollar athletes; they are 11- to 13-year-old kids.
The...
Urban Policy Reconsidered
Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.