Maniac : the Bath school disaster and the birth of the modern mass killer

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781542025324
ISBN: 154202532X
ISBN: 9781542025317
ISBN: 1542025311
Physical Description: print
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.