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The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson [Hardcover]

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Brand
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
EAN
9780609608449
ISBN
Does not apply
Book Title
Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2003
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.4 in
Author
Erik Larson
Genre
Architecture, True Crime, Social Science, History
Topic
Murder / General, United States / 19th Century, Murder / Serial Killers, Individual Architects & Firms / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Sociology / Urban
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Width
6.4 in
Number of Pages
464 Pages
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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0609608444
ISBN-13
9780609608449
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2243368

Product Key Features

Book Title
Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, United States / 19th Century, Murder / Serial Killers, Individual Architects & Firms / General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture, True Crime, Social Science, History
Author
Erik Larson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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Trade
LCCN
2002-154046
Reviews
"Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." -- Chicago Tribune "A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . 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 "So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already." -- Esquire "Another successful exploration of American history. . . . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair."-- USA Today "As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find."-- San Francisco Chronicle "Paints a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come."-- Entertainment Weekly "A wonderfully unexpected book. . . Larson is a historian . . . with a novelist's soul."-- Chicago Sun-Times, "Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." -- Chicago Tribune "A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . 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 "So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already." -- Esquire "Another successful exploration of American history. . . . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair." -- USA Today "As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Paints a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come." -- Entertainment Weekly "A wonderfully unexpected book. . . Larson is a historian . . . with a novelist's soul." -- Chicago Sun-Times, "Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." -- Chicago Tribune "A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . 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 "So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already." -- Esquire "Another successful exploration of American history. . . . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair." -- USA Today "As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Paint[s] a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure[s] the American century to come." -- Entertainment Weekly "A wonderfully unexpected book. . . Larson is a historian . . . with a novelist's soul." -- Chicago Sun-Times
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.1523092
Synopsis
In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. 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 a time of magic and majesty, 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. To find out more about this book, go to http: //www.DevilInTheWhiteCity.com., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 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. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century 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 a time of magic and majesty, 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., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century 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 a time of magic and majesty, 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.
LC Classification Number
HV6248.M8L37 2003

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  • by diogenes9561
    Jun 11, 2020Top favorable review

    19 Century Horror That's Real, Not Fictional

    Year of Our Lord 1893, a World's Fair in Chicago, a city almost fully recovered from the devastating fire of 1871. A dazzling spectacle in Jackson Park, the first Ferris Wheel, buildings and peoples of the world, tourists from everywhere...and an unspeakably evil Herman Webster Mudgett, AKA Dr. H.H Holmes, who meets young women, invites them to visit his home near the Fair, and murders them. I grew up in Chicago and I'd heard a few things about this man and his "murder castle" on 63rd Street west of Jackson Park, but this book fills in any and all details I never knew. Holmes was evil, a cold blooded serial killer, America's first, and his story is fascinating in the same way as looking a fatal car accident: I was revulsed by what he'd done, but it was horribly fascinating and I could not ...

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  • by ramblingnash
    Nov 01, 2022

    Outstanding Historical Nonfiction Serves as the Back Drop for one of America's Worst Criminals

    This book is unlike any other book I have ever read because it incorporates a true crime story with the history about the end of the 19th century when there was a monumental world's fair in Chicago, Illinois. That 1893 world's fair introduced so many modern advances such as the ferris wheel, the use of alternating current for electricity, the creation of a modern theme park with white structures, the utilization of landscape architecture by Olmstead, the invention of the rocking chair, etc. This book is historically fascinating and uplifting while providing the back drop for one of America's worst criminals, who preyed on young women who attended that spectacular world's fair, many whom went missing forever. If you are looking for a riveting page turner, this is it!

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  • by tsegat45
    Jul 10, 2022

    One of my favorite books

    Probably the best of all Erik Larson's books. As fascinating as the H. H. Holmes story was, the planning and building of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair was even more compelling. I read this a few years ago and bought a hard cover copy so I can read it again.

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  • by reneesgiftbox
    Sep 13, 2018

    Go Back in Time to America's First World's Fair

    Spell-binding. Chock full of historical content. Brings the realities of 1890s Chicago to light. If you want to learn about the first U.S. city to host a World's Fair, and how it was accomplished, this is the book for you. Captivating!

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  • by smb2050_epqg6xpdx
    Jan 18, 2022

    A fascinating snapshot of a bygone era.

    A fascinating snapshot of a bygone era. Truly a time of titans undertaking things we will never see again. All counterbalanced by the "downside" of society, the problems of an overcrowded Chicago and two of its madmen.

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