he said do you know who eric larson is?e middle of writing that very book so i did manhunt instead of writing about the mad dr. homes. my grandfather who is a chicago policeman from the 1930s the al capone gangster area -- era through the 1960s the anti-vietnam war protests in civil rights movement era. he came home said and almost a stage whisper and i wondered if he wanted me to hear this. he said don't let jamie read the newspapers. they lived with us and of course what i do the moment i was alone? i grabbed a copy of the sun-times to read the newspaper. how many of you remember the name richard speck? almost all of you. a madman murdered a number of student nurses in chicago and i read all about it because my grandfather said don't let him read the newspaper. since that day i have read seven newspapers a day and four on weekends. i'm addicted to newspapers and i'm sure's because of my grandmother and grandfather exposing me to these when i was a boy. my father went to a high school in chicago and the teacher used to poi