The Devil In The White City Erik Larson by Erik Larson 9781409044604, 9780553813531, 1409044602, 0553813536, B0041OT8O0 instant download after payment.

The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer.

The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome 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 deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium.

These two disparate but driven men together with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters, including as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison and some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.

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"Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." --"Chicago Tribune
""A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramtic 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
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" Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." -- "Chicago Tribune
"" A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramtic 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
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'Larson's book captures the spirit of an America bursting with pioneering drive ... gripping.'