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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story ...Show synopsisThe Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, an architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of the White City, who created a magical landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome young doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their death. Holmes would stroll through the fair at night, when an electric dynamo transformed it into an incandescent fairyland, with his unsuspecting victims on either arm. While Burnham overcame politics, personality clashes and the fatal Chicago winds to bring together the creative talents of his architectural team in the transformation of swampy Jackson Park into the White City, Holmes was busy constructing his own edifice just west of the fairgrounds. He called it the World's Fair Hotel and designed it to be a torture palace, complete with gas chamber and crematorium. Burnham, Holmes, and a colourful cast leap off the page of this magnificent story, as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison, and some 27 million others converge on the dazzling spectacle of the White City. Erik Larson's gifts as a story-teller are magnificently displayed in this mesmerizing tale of the legendary Fair that captured the spirit of America at the dawn of the Twentieth Century.Hide synopsis
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Title: The Devil in the White City-Murder, Magic, and Madness at Teh Fair That Changed America Author:Erik Larson ISBN-13:9780385602730 ISBN:0385602731
Title: The Devil in the White City-Murder, Magic, and Madness at Teh Fair That Changed America Author:Erik Larson ISBN-13:9780385602730 ISBN:0385602731
Title: The Devil in the White City-Murder, Magic, and Madness at Teh Fair That Changed America Author:Erik Larson ISBN-13:9780385602730 ISBN:0385602731
the epilogue is most interesting as it follows up with the persons who built the fairl Look up World Fairs List and you will see the impact that the succeeding fairs have had.Very well written. There is a photographic book that is separate and it would be good to have that book as you read this one ...
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It's ironic that I can't find the words to fully describe how amazing this book is. It's a tour de force of literature.
It carefully weaves the story of the 1983 World's Fair (where pretty much everything ever and everyone ever came together in Chicago) and the diabolical HH Holmes.
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The story of how America's most prolific serial killer used the nations greatest engineering accomplishment to carry out his nefarious deeds.
Murder, ambition, intrigue, and the indomitable American spirit juxtapose perfectly in this tale of both the good and evil within man.
Every detail has ...
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