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The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel . It doesn't hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction. --The New York Times Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his World's Fair Hotel just west of the fairgrounds--a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized Read More chevron_right
This Description may be from another edition of this product.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.
Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel . It doesn't hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction. --The New York Times Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his World's Fair Hotel just west of the fairgrounds--a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into the enchantment of the Guilded Age, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. chevron_left Read Less
Frequently Asked Questions About The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America
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How long does it take to read The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America?
It takes about 9 Hours and 17 minutes on average for a reader to read The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America. This is based on the average reading speed of 250 Words per minute.
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How long is The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America?
The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America is 717 pages long.
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Who wrote The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America?
The Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic, And Madness At The Fair That Changed America was written by Erik W Larson
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It was just okay...
Paige B , May 26, 2022
It felt like there were two separate stories trying to be told in one book, but they never connect with each other. Both stories were told well, I just wish they had been intertwined.
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