04659cam a2200673 4500 2467162657 TxAuBib 20250601120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781400076314 1400076315 B000FC0ZIA Amazon cf5326e9-9287-472d-93f2-66587f07bfa7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 36481 OverDrive (Product ID) 98115 98115 TxAuBib Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City [Libby eBook] : A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. the devil in the white city by erik larson. the splendid and the vile by erik larson. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. nonfiction books best sellers. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. devil in the white city book. new york times best sellers. The Devil in the White City. true crime books nonfiction. books based on true stories. Devil in the White City. best true crime books. murder mystery book. mother's day gifts. best books of 2024. leonardo dicaprio. Martin Scorsese. true crime book. mystery books. gifts for mom. erik larson. mothers day. eric larson. ed kemper. Illinois. White. HTML:<b>#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Splendid and the Vile</i> 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.<br /> “As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —<i>San Francisco Chronicle<br /></i>A <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> Best Nonfiction Book of the Century • A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years<br /></b><br /> 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.<i><br /></i><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> <i>The Devil in the White City</i> 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. True Crime. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. 8. 9. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Edgar Allan Poe Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CF5326E9-9287-472D-93F2-66587F07BFA7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CF5326E9-9287-472D-93F2-66587F07BFA7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)