The Devil in the White Cityby Erik Larson | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Cultural" |
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| Pages: | 396 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Date Added: | 07/15/2003 |
| Date Read: | 06/23/2003 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Daniel Hudson Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted designed the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Henry H. Holmes designed a special hotel near the fairground specifically to dispose of the bodies of his murder victims. The story of the fair and those involved — Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand— make the smoke, romance and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. |
| My Rating: | 7 |