Feagler's Cleveland

The Best from Three Decades of Commentary by Cleveland's Top Columnist

by Dick Feagler

  • Format: Softcover, 320 pages, 5.3 x 8.3 inches
  • ISBN: 978-1-886228-10-8
  • Price: $13.95
Description

Now in paperback.

A comprehensive and uncompromising look at life in and around the city through a collection of articles by noted Cleveland newspaper columnist and TV commentator Dick Feagler. Political and social commentary, anecdotes, and nostalgic remembrances cover a variety of interesting and memorable Cleveland events, topics, and personalities.

Book Excerpt:
Where'd we go?

“ We are calling from National Public Radio's ‘ Morning Edition' program,” a nice young man from the East said. “ We wonder if you will let us interview you. Cleveland has come back, you know.”

“ I know,” I told him. “ I read it in USA Today. They had a front-page story saying we were back, so we must be back.”

The young man assured me that we were. “ The only trouble is, I'm not sure I'm the right person to interview about it,” I said. “ I don't feel as if I've ever been away. I've been here all the time.”

The young man considered this. But he announced it didn't worry him.

He didn't say this in so many words, but the impression I got was that he figured I had been away without realizing it. Cleveland had been away and, since I lived in Cleveland, I had been taken away with it. I had been like a passenger on a cruise ship who doesn't realize the ship has left port until it is way out at sea.

But even if this were true, I still wasn't crazy about being interviewed. I still had bad memories of the last time.

Back in 1980, they held the presidential debates in Cleveland. All the civic cheerleaders thought this was wonderful. They figured it was a sign that Cleveland had come back. Pretty soon they had me thinking so too.

Tom Brokaw came to town and wanted to interview me on the Today show. About how it felt to be back.

Full of confidence, I agreed. Soon after the interview started, Brokaw asked me about the weather in Cleveland. He . . . [ Read More Free Samples ]

Reviews
Dick Feagler's eye-opening commentaries have told the stories of his home town Cleveland to generations of readers, presenting the idiosyncrasies of every day life with a touch of humor along with a wry wit. — Morning Journal
Feagler has been entertaining, chastsing and instructing us for three decades with his newspaper columns. He is our Royko, our Damon Runyan, our Balzac, capturing our foibles and the goofy logic with which we pursue our grand schemes--even finding, occasionally, the tender and the sweet among the peanut shells and the kielbasa . . . As these collected columns attest, behind the smart-aleck smirk of the TV persona is a man who sees things, and knows how to tell a story. For almost as long as most of us can remember, he has achieved a difficult thing: he has managed to write well. Regularly. — Northern Ohio Live
Dick Feagler is to Cleveland what Jimmy Breslin is to New York and Mike Royko is to Chicago. — Cleveland Magazine
Feagler has serenaded a city with his wit, insight and bell-ringing home runs. — Ohio Magazine
Feagler consistently has produced immensely engaging, thoughtful and informative columns about an enormous range of issues and individuals . . . A master of clean, simple prose and an evocative phrasemaker . . . [This] book amply shows what a civic resource - and treasure - Feagler has been and remains. (Neil A. Grauer, of the Baltimore Sun) — The Plain Dealer
[Feagler has] the ability to use words like Norman Rockwell used an artist's brush. — West Life
About Dick Feagler
Dick Feagler

Dick Feagler is a featured columnist for the Plain Dealer and host of the weekly interview program Feagler & Friends on WVIZ-TV25. He has won the George Foster Peabody Award, the Alfred I. DuPont Award, 23 local Emmys, and numerous UPI and AP awards. He has written featured columns for Northeast Ohio newspapers since 1970, including the Cleveland Press, 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. Earlier columns have been collected in three previous books: Feagler's Cleveland; “Did You Read Feagler Today?”; and “I know I'm not supposed to say this . . . But I'll say it anyway.” More About Dick Feagler

Contains References to:

Christmas at Aunt Ida's, Cleveland Crime, Cleveland Media, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Sports, Feagler and Friends, Political Commentary, Race Relations, Social Commentary,

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