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. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded
Age come alive as never before.
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.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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