TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schechter,Harold
TI  - Maniac: the Bath school disaster and the birth of the modern mass killer 
SN  - 9781542025324
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Little A
KW  - Kehoe, Andrew P.
KW  - Bombings
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Bath (Township)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Students
KW  - Crimes against
KW  - Mass murder
KW  - Suicide bombers
KW  - Bath (Mich. : Township)
KW  - True crime stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical resources (pages 193-232) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -