Dick Feagler's sharp-witted newspaper columns and TV commentaries have told the stories of this city to hundreds of thousands of Clevelanders for more than three decades.
Now, the best of this award-winning columnist's compelling writing about his home town has been collected in a book for the first time. These 104 essays cover Cleveland politics, sports, crime, people (famous, infamous, and ordinary), and timeless tough issues from 1968 to today.
A vivid depiction of a city's colorful and not always picture-perfect past.
Dick Feagler is also author of "Did You Read Feagler Today?"
Dick Feagler was the longtime lead columnist for the Cleveland Press and, later, the Plain Dealer. He is host of the weekly interview program Feagler & Friends on WVIZ PBS-TV25. He has won the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. DuPont Award, 23 local Emmys, and numerous UPI and AP awards. Hia columns have also appeared in the Akron Beacon Journal, the Lake County News-Herald, the Lorain Journal, the Painesville Telegraph, and the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. Feagler has also provided regular news commentary for WKYC-TV3 and WEWS-TV5, and his commentaries have aired on National Public Radio.