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court reporter, and could that have
leaned you in the direction of the
book?
GC: When I first started at the Free
Press back in the early '60s, I worked
the police beat on Sunday mornings.
That was rather lively because we had
all the reports that came in from the
activity in Detroit on Saturday night,
which would make rather engrossing
reading, but that's the only occasion I
had to cover the police in Detroit.
I did a chapter on Detroit's own
villain, Simon Girty, who operated
during the Revolutionary War and
was regarded as one of the chief vil-
lains of that war. He was a renegade
working for the British and helping
the Indians and was a name to con-
j ure up fear on the American frontier.

JN: How does this book compare to
your earlier books?
GC: This book was a lot of fun to do.
I enjoyed doing the research for it. I
enjoyed doing the writing for it. I've
done lots of travel books and some
sports books, but I haven't done any-
thing quite like this. Dealing with
people who were unapologetically bad
or evil for a solid year was kind of a
catharsis. It's nice, every once in a
while, to deal with just nasty people
because it reassures us that some of
our little sins aren't so bad.
Now, I'm in the process of finish-
ing up a book on some of the
Confederate generals, which is entire-
ly different. These were mostly honor-
able people who lived very decent
lives. Some of them were among the
greatest figures in American history.

JN: Did this book in some ways
serve as a distraction for the personal
tragedy you suffered with the loss of
your daughter?

GC: Writing this book came at a very
difficult time for me personally, but
maybe it was a stroke of fortune that
it came along when it did because I
was able to lose myself in it. In the
writing of it, I did get away from this
terrible thitig that has happened to
my family. I think it did help me
work my way through that tragedy.
After I get through with the book
about the Confederate generals, my
intention is to do a book about
Courtney. I really feel it's very impor-
tant that she be remembered as some-
thing more than the way she died.
I've said all along that I didn't want
her to be the poster child for campus
drinking, and unfortunately, I think
that's exactly what did happen. I want
her life to have greater meaning than
that. I do not intend the book as a
guide because I think it's impossible to
guide people in something like this.
It will be a reflection of the experi-
ence of what its like to lose a beauti-
ful, young child in this stage of her
life and what it's like for her parents
and the others that she left behind.
It's a very important project for me.

JN: How are you handling being the
subject of news reports instead of the

reporter?

GC: When this all began, it was kind
of a therapy for me. It really helped
me deal with the grief I was feeling.
Because I'm a journalist and have been
on television and radio and on the
other end of the interview process, I'm
comfortable in that situation.
When all the television cameras
and news reporters appeared on our
front door in those first few days, it
was almost a relief to me. It gave me
something to occupy my mind and
something that I was comfortable
doing.
In the ensuing months, I was not