The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Trade Paperback Very Good

Description: The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson Trade Paperback Very Good Condition. Slight rubbing/shelf wear to covers and slight soiling of page edges are only flaws. What a monumental work of research and writing! This book won several awards and was nominated for the National Book Award and rightfully so. It's fantastic! A really good true crime narrative about America's so-called first serial killer but an even better book about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. A truly great read! About the book: CHICAGO, 1893. ONE MAN BUILT A HEAVEN ON EARTH. ANOTHER BUILT HELL BESIDE IT. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was one of the greats wonders of the world. This is the extraordinary story of its realization, and of two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer... The architect was Daniel H. Burnham. He created the 'White City', a massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in an incandescent wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with intense blue eyes, who used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores, perhaps hundreds, of young women to their deaths. And while Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate yet driven men together with a remarkable supporting cast, including Buffalo Bill, George Ferris and Thomas Edison, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the spectacle that transformed America and set it on course for the 20th century.

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