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Maniac : the Bath school disaster and the birth of the modern mass killer / Harold Schechter.
Record details
- ISBN: 154202532X : HRD
- ISBN: 9781542025324 : HRD
- ISBN: 1542025311 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781542025317 : PAP
- ISBN: 9781542025324
- ISBN: 154202532X
- ISBN: 9781542025317
- ISBN: 1542025311
- Physical Description: 239 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Little A, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical resources (pages 193-232) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Part one: Kehoe. Clinton County ; Bath ; The Kehoes ; Andrew ; Nellie ; Newcomer -- Part two: The school. Consolidation ; Emory ; The board member ; Handyman ; Pyrotol ; The unravelling ; Barnstormer -- Part three: The Bath School disaster. Countdown ; Explosions ; Last day ; Conflagration ; Catastrophe ; Blood bath ; Ground zero ; Wasteland ; The bereft ; The flight -- Part four: Aftershocks. The sermon ; Inquest ; Motives ; "Kehoed" -- Part fives: The crime of the century. Ruth ; Obscurity ; Harbinger -- Epilogue: The graduates. |
| Summary, etc.: | Relates how respected local farmer and school board treasurer Andrew P. Kehoe blew up the new primary school in Bath, Michigan in 1927, an act of vengeance that killed thirty-eight children and six adults in one of the first and worst mass murders in American history. 1927. While the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school, local farmer and school board treasurer Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. 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. Schechter provides an 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. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Genre: | True crime stories. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Derby Public Library | 364.152 SCH (Text) | 34047150127356 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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