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The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Hardcover • 2003 • English

The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

By Erik Larson

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780609608449

Publisher

Crown Publishers

Published year

2003

Language

English

Original title

The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Format

Hardcover

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