000353720 000__ 03634cam\a22004694a\4500 000353720 001__ 353720 000353720 005__ 20210513130348.0 000353720 008__ 021114s2003\\\\nyuab\\\\b\\\\001\0ceng\\ 000353720 010__ $$a 2002154046 000353720 020__ $$a9780965711340 (pbk.) 000353720 020__ $$a096571134X (pbk.) 000353720 020__ $$a9780609608449 000353720 020__ $$a0609608444 000353720 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm51053561 000353720 035__ $$a353720 000353720 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dZ$3$$dXY4$$dBAKER$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dIG#$$dOCLCQ$$dDEBBG$$dOCL$$dIAD$$dISE 000353720 042__ $$apcc 000353720 043__ $$an-us-il 000353720 049__ $$aISEA 000353720 05000 $$aHV6248.M8$$bL37 2003 000353720 08200 $$a364.15/23/0977311$$221 000353720 084__ $$aHU 9800$$2rvk 000353720 1001_ $$aLarson, Erik,$$d1954- 000353720 24514 $$aThe devil in the white city :$$bmurder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America /$$cErik Larson. 000353720 250__ $$a1st ed. 000353720 260__ $$aNew York :$$bCrown Publishers,$$cc2003. 000353720 300__ $$axi, 447 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c25 cm. 000353720 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000353720 5050_ $$aEvils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic -- Frozen music -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed -- Epilogue, the last crossing. 000353720 520__ $$aTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America₂s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds₇a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both. 000353720 586__ $$aNational Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2003 000353720 60010 $$aMudgett, Herman W.,$$d1861-1896. 000353720 60010 $$aBurnham, Daniel Hudson,$$d1846-1912. 000353720 61120 $$aWorld's Columbian Exposition$$d(1893 :$$cChicago, Ill.) 000353720 650_0 $$aSerial murderers$$zIllinois$$zChicago$$vBiography. 000353720 650_0 $$aSerial murders$$zIllinois$$zChicago$$vCase studies. 000353720 650_0 $$aArchitects$$zIllinois$$zChicago$$vBiography. 000353720 651_0 $$aChicago (Ill.)$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000353720 85200 $$bgen$$hHV6248.M8$$iL37$$i2003 000353720 85642 $$3Book review (H-Net)$$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d9u3-aa 000353720 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random054/2002154046.html 000353720 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random045/2002154046.html 000353720 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0415/2002154046.html 000353720 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:353720$$pGLOBAL_SET 000353720 980__ $$aBIB 000353720 980__ $$aBOOK