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\n #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST \u2022 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.\u201d \u2014San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America\u2019s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair\u2019s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country\u2019s 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 \u201cWorld\u2019s Fair Hotel\u201d just west of the fairgrounds\u2014a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0Erik Larson\u2019s 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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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Vintage (February 10, 2004)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 447 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0375725601
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0375725609
Lexile measure \u200f : \u200e 1170L
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 1 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.16 x 0.99 x 7.94 inches <\/p>\n

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