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  • 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.

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AuthorErik Larson
PublisherVintage
Publication dateFebruary 10, 2004
Print length447 pages
Customer Reviews★★★★ / 25,689 ratings
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes 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.

"As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find." —
San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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Good book. Long, but good.
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When I first learned of Henry H. Holmes and his building, i thought this stuff is made up, a tv show. Very bizarre.
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03-30-2023 at 07:04 AM.
Fascinating book. Love how the author contrasted Burnham and Holmes, two VERY different men, with VERY different talents...and yet both determined to make the most of the Worlds Fair opportunity. I'm not always into history or even historical fiction (this book MAY veer into that latter category, not sure) but I always highly recommend this book to others.
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book is well written..excellent storyteller
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great book - felt like *everybody* in Chicago was reading this book about 13-15 years ago.
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This book is sooooo good! The opening pages are honestly kinda boring but if you ride them out you'll find yourself invested in two amazing stories. 100% worth a read. Such a good book.
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great book - felt like *everybody* in Chicago was reading this book about 13-15 years ago.
I was one of 'em. good read.
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When I first learned of Henry H. Holmes and his building, i thought this stuff is made up, a tv show. Very bizarre.
An adaptation has been in development hell for over ten years. Has gone from movie to mini-series.
Production is supposed to finally start this spring with DiCaprio and Scorsese producing, adn Reeves in a starring role.
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Yeah when that Freakonomics sequel book was on here a few weeks ago, I just got it from the Libby app (then delivered to my Kindle). I mean I like the $1.99 price, but free is better!
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