Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.

Friday, April 20, 2007

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Guest 1: Ann Hagedorn, author, Savage Peace, Hope and Fear in America 1919. The veteran journalist recreates for us “a year of struggle. A dark, apocalyptic time…” It was the year that followed the end of The Great War and a flu epidemic that killed millions. It should have been a time of hope. But there were fears of revolution, labor and union strife, terrorist attacks and race riots. Hagedorn’s book looks at the causes and effects of a seminal year in American history and their sometimes-disturbing parallels to the events of today.

Guest 2: George E. Condon, author, West of the Cuyahoga. We think of our city as having an East Side and a West Side divided by a crooked river. The Cuyahoga once served as a boundary between rival municipalities, and they could have remained disparate entities to the modern day. The reason they didn’t is explained in Condon’s book. He takes a look at the historical forces that shaped what was known as Brooklyn, then the City of Ohio, then Ohio City and what finally made them one city. Condon is a veteran newspaperman who wrote columns for The Plain Dealer for 41 years.

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