Schechter Harold - Maniac The Bath School Disaster And The Birth Of The Modern Mass Killer - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
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.
Title: Maniac The Bath School Disaster And The Birth Of The Modern Mass Killer
Author(s): Schechter Harold
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781542025317
Pages: 254 Pages
Publication Date: 3/9/2021
Category: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000