Maniac: The Tub Faculty Catastrophe and the Start of the Fashionable Mass Killer

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling writer of Hell’s Princess, reveals an almost forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of many first—and worst—mass murders in American historical past.

In 1927, whereas the vast majority of the township of Tub, Michigan, was celebrating a brand new major college—one of the crucial trendy within the Midwest—Andrew P. Kehoe had different plans. The native farmer and college board treasurer was educated, revered, and an accommodating neighbor and pal. However behind his bizarre demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On Could 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the only real goal of destroying the varsity and everybody in it. Thirty-eight youngsters and 6 adults had been murdered that morning, culminating within the deadliest college bloodbath in US historical past.

Maniac is Harold Schechter’s gripping, definitive, exhaustively researched chronicle of a city compelled to understand unprecedented carnage and the triggering of a “human time bomb” whose act of apocalyptic violence would foreshadow the terrors of the present age.