Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer -- Harold Schechter, Paperback

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.

Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Little a
Published: 03/09/2021
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 10.00h x 3.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781542025317

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2020 pg. 96