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Maniac

The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

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Maniac

De: Harold Schechter
Narrado por: Braden Wright
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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.

©2021 Harold Schechter. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Américas Crimen Crímenes Reales Estados Unidos Homicidio Aterrador True Disasters
Gripping Historical Account • Fascinating Tragic Story • Stellar Narration • Excellent Historical Context • Amazing Reading
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Gripping story of America's first & LARGEST attack of a school killing scores od students and staff a century ago, followed by a chapter of its footnotes in history and media vs later attacks through to Sandy Hook.

American LARGEST school attack

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I don't know how I missed this bit of history. The Bath School Disaster involved a clearly disturbed man with a history of violence, who killed his neighbor's dog and who had grievances against the government and taxes. His revenge against his town and his scorched-earth tactics chilled me. Like other mass murders, his name should remain veiled in shame even as we remember the victims and move to prevent it from happening again. To that end, the book does an excellent job. It makes no apologies for the monstrous deed but paints a picture of the suffering and events leading to it.

A name veiled in shame; Remember the victims

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This book takes readers on a journey through not only Andrew Kehoe’s life and his actions and their effect upon the Bath community, but also delves into the context of the times and how this act of violence was the precursor to today’s mass killings.

A Holistic View of the Bath School Disaster

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Too much extraneous stuff about events unrelated to the actual topic. The book could have been reduced at least 25 percent. The writing style otherwise is bare bones, it reads like a police blotter blurb for the newspaper.

Too much filler

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As a resident of Michigan, I had only a vague knowledge of this event. The book covered every detail of this event to a satisfying conclusion.

Local history comes to life.

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The basic story is padded by all kinds of extraneous other stories as if the author were being paid by the word. The Charles Lindbergh story has nothing whatsoever to do with the murder of schoolchildren in Michigan, for example.

Meandering

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A gripping story of an incredibly tragic part of US history. I recommend this highly

incredible

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Gripping story, with background and historical context. Reading performance also very good. Definitely for fans of true crime.

Great story, amazing reading.

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Narration was fine. Most of the book isn't about Bath School Bombing or Andrew Kehoe. I wanted to learn more about the attack on my hometown 94 years ago. This book was highly anticipated by me because I love Harold Schechter's books. This book, however, mentions the bombing in from the "big stories that happened shortly after the attack helped to wipe this incident from memory due to short coverage", then Schechter proceeds to do the same thing as he goes into short detail about the people involved and the bombing itself, and then proceeds to go into massive detail about completely unrelated events. I had to shut it off after a while because this book really irritated me. I understand that it can be hard to get the gritty details on a story like this and be able to narrate them as fact, but he could have absolutely done better. This book does not do my hometown, nor any of the families who were affected, any justice. Just another instance like so often seems to happen, where the Bath School Bombing is simply overlooked and forgotten.

One of my favorite true crime authors flops.

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Harolds work is as always exemplary. The narrator is wonderful as well. Looking forward to the next one

Outstanding

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