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- Bath Massacre: America's First School Bombing
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
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"With the meticulous attention to detail of a historian and a storyteller's eye for human drama, Bernstein shines a beam of truth on a forgotten American tragedy. Heartbreaking and riveting."
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine's Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe."
---Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart
---Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Starvation Heights
"A chilling and historic character study of the unfathomable suffering that desperation and fury, once unleashed inside a twisted mind, can wreak on a small town. Contemporary mass murderers Timothy McVeigh, Columbine's Dylan Klebold, and Virginia Tech's Seung-Hui Cho can each trace their horrific genealogy of terror to one man: Bath school bomber Andrew Kehoe."
---Mardi Link, author of When Evil Came to Good Hart
On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally blown himself to bits by setting off a dynamite charge in his car. The next day, on Kehoe's farm, what was left of his wife---burned beyond recognition after Kehoe set his property and buildings ablaze---was found tied to a handcart, her skull crushed. With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism and large-scale murder are nothing new.
Table of Contents
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- Prologue: April 16, 2007
- pp. xi-xvi
- Two - Andrew P. Kehoe
- pp. 6-15
- Three - Dawn of a Decade
- pp. 16-19
- Four - New Man in Town
- pp. 20-24
- Five - The Bath Consolidated School
- pp. 25-38
- Six - A Growing Storm
- pp. 39-54
- Seven - Electricity
- pp. 55-87
- Eight - A School, a Farm
- pp. 88-114
- Nine - The Valley of the Shadow of Death
- pp. 115-126
- Ten - Requiems
- pp. 127-137
- Twelve - Summer
- pp. 144-156
- Thirteen - Tulips
- pp. 157-176
- Victims’ Names
- pp. 177-179
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 181-183
- Selective Bibliography
- pp. 199-200
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472024704
Related ISBN(s)
9780472033461, 9780472116065
MARC Record
OCLC
867795980
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2009