When Eagles Soared
As the Vietnam War rages, a young coach tries to teach a struggling grade-school football team about winning, losing, and the importance of honor . . .
As the Osborne family gathers to celebrate young Lou’s college graduation in 1970, his future is uncertain. He could be sent to Vietnam like his friend Manny—who’s now back home—suffering every day from his experience overseas. After Lou is spared from the same fate, he wonders at his luck, but embraces a hopeful new future as he accepts a job as a teacher and football coach at an Ohio elementary school.
He has his work cut out for him, though. The Eidsonville Eagles have never had a winning season. Now, as he navigates his growing relationship with his girlfriend, his concern for Manny, and the turbulence of the times, he must power through obstacles and challenges to bring a ragtag group of seventh and eighth graders together and teach them to be the best they can be, win or lose . . .
Based on the author’s own memories and experiences of the era, When Eagles Soared takes us back to a time of both innocence and tension, when rock and roll rang through the air, young men of draft age lived under a cloud of anxiety, and a nation struggled to hold on to hope for a better future.
Nick Lewis
Nick Lewis lives in Richmond, Kentucky with his wife, Bonnie. After graduating from Marshall University in the fall of 1970, his chosen career path didn't work out. Although he taught school and coached football for one year in Boyd County, Kentucky, that door closed, and another one opened, the newspaper business. After forty years at five different newspapers in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia, he retired in June 2013. For the last nine years of his newspaper career, he was publisher of the Richmond Register in Richmond, Kentucky. It was there that his love for writing was born and cultivated. After penning hundreds of commentary for the newspaper, he sat down one day in January 2014 and started writing a series titled, The Detective Carla McBride Chronicles. After a long seven years, the first three books were finally completed, and published. The Gold Fedora, The Black Rose, Chasing Truth and Redemption are available in your preferred format on your favorite online bookstore. When he is not writing and revising manuscripts, he enjoys golf, gardening, and creating new chapters of his life with Bonnie. An avid Marshall University football fan, he attends all home games in Huntington, West Virginia. He has three grown children, and three grandchildren.
