A review by mwgerard
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter

3.0

While I enjoyed what was in the book, it felt unfinished. There were multiple strands of narrative that didn't ever get tied together. For example, the Charles Lindbergh tangent could have been braided in to the discussion of eugenics, but it is left dangling. Instead there are chapters about his Atlantic crossing with no understanding of why they are included, other than to show it was a popular new item at the time.