| Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer Contributor(s): Schechter, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 154202532X ISBN-13: 9781542025324 Publisher: Little a OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - Mass Murder - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 977.404 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.6" W x 8.4" (0.88 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first--and worst--mass murders in American history. In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school--one of the most modern in the Midwest--Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it. Thirty-eight children and six adults were murdered that morning, culminating in the deadliest school massacre in US history. Maniac is Harold Schechter's gripping, definitive, exhaustively researched chronicle of a town forced to comprehend unprecedented carnage and the triggering of a "human time bomb" whose act of apocalyptic violence would foreshadow the terrors of the current age. |