Truth and Justice for Fun and Profit

by Michael Heaton

The first collection of feature-length reporting from one of Cleveland's favorite print journalists. (Foreword by Joe Eszterhas.) Michael Heaton has reported on as wide a range of stories as any active Cleveland journalist. On any given day his byline might appear in any section of the Plain Dealer, where he is a regular columnist and reporter. To get the story he has put on boxing gloves and entered the ring, and gone undercover with the FBI and mob informants. He has interviewed chefs and coroners, gypsies and priests. This collection of 40 newspaper and magazine stories shows Heaton's Cleveland to be a crazy quilt of bold schemes, failed dreams, and colorful characters. (Heaton is the brother of actress Patricia Heaton and son of sportswriter Chuck Heaton.)

Genres: Nonfiction

298 pages, Hardcover

First published September 28, 2007

Reviews

[Dawn Meyers · Rating 3 out of 5]

I live near Cleveland. This book had some interesting stories about Cleveland characters and history.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Michael Heaton is a Cleveland journalist. This is a collection of some of his newspaper and magazine articles. Just about all of them have a Cleveland connection. I found some of the stories fascinating. And Heaton must be a good writer....I even liked articles that I almost skipped because I had no interest in the topic. I miss his column in the Plain Dealer.
But shout out to his editor...get a proofreader!!! There were far too many typos in this book!