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The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
Record details
- ISBN: 0609608444 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780375725609 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xi, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2003.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-429) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic (1912) -- Frozen music (Chicago, 1890-1891) -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed (1894-5) Property of H.H. Holmes -- Epilogue, the last crossing. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Serial murders Illinois Chicago Case studies Serial murderers Illinois Chicago Biography World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Mudgett, Herman W 1861-1896 |
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- 2 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 364.15232 M944L 2003 (Text) | 33126024506333 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | 364.15232 M944L 2003 (Text) | 33126023113404 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/15/2024 |
| Independence Branch | 364.15232 M944L 2003 (Text) | 33126022795813 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
A compelling account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 brings together the divergent stories of two very different men who played a key role in shaping the history of the event--visionary architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and Dr. Henry H. Holmes, an insatiable and charming serial killer who lured women to their deaths. 200,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
An account of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 relates the stories of two men who shaped the history of the event--architect Daniel H. Burnham, who coordinated its construction, and serial killer Herman Mudgett. - Blackwell North Amer
In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâs rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâs brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâs 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 âWorldâs Fair Hotelâ just west of the fairgroundsâa 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. Erik Larsonâs 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. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â¢Â 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.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americaâs rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairâs brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countryâs 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 âWorldâs Fair Hotelâ just west of the fairgroundsâa 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. Erik Larsonâs 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.