Description |
239 pages ; 21 cm |
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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. |
Subject |
Kehoe, Andrew P. (Andrew Philip), 1872-1927.
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Bombings -- Michigan -- Bath -- History -- 20th century.
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Students -- Crimes against -- Michigan -- Bath -- History -- 20th century.
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Murder -- Michigan -- Bath -- History -- 20th century.
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Suicide bombers -- Michigan -- Bath -- History -- 20th century.
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Bath (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century.
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ISBN |
9781542025324 |
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154202532X |
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