{"product_id":"maniac-harold-schechter-9781542025324","title":"Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHell's Princess\u003c\/i\u003e, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first--and worst--mass murders in American history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManiac\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Schechter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 154202532X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781542025324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Little a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2020 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2021 pg. 7","brand":"Harold Schechter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44050801000703,"sku":"9781542025324","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25aa6c27-1609-447e-918b-f9c14e8f9b78.jpg?v=1685009325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maniac-harold-schechter-9781542025324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}