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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
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By Tina , Creator · 5 posts · 4 views
last updated Aug 01, 2021 11:44AM
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This book wasn't so much written as it was cut and paste from better books and resources about the crime. Schecter uses lengthy quotes from other books instead of actual writing or paraphrasing. Plus he dwells too much on other mass killers, and not one but TWO chapters on Charles Lindbergh, who had nothing to do with the crime. There's more attention given to Lindbergh in this book as well as other mass killers then there are of the actual victims of this bombing. He ends with a graduate ceremo
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Feb 12, 2021
Tina Haigler
marked it as to-read