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Author:

Schechter, Harold, author.

Title:

Maniac : the Bath school disaster and the birth of the modern mass killer / Harold Schechter.

Publisher:

Little A,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

239 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Kehoe, Andrew P.--(Andrew Philip),--1872-1927.
Bombings--Bath--Bath--History--20th century.
Bath (Mich.)--History--20th century.
Students--History--Bath--Bath--History--20th century.
Murder--Bath--Bath--History--20th century.
Suicide bombers--Bath--Bath--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical resources and index.

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.

ISBN:

9781542025324
154202532X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1157557305

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S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

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GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

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UBPC631 -- Webb Shadle Public Library (Pleasantville)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

TRPE062 -- Vinton Public Library (Vinton)

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