The devil in the white city : (Record no. 35759)

MARC details
ISBN
International Standard Book Number 9780609608449
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Call number 364.15230977311 LA DE
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
Authors Larson, Erik,
Dates 1954-
TITLE STATEMENT
Title The devil in the white city :
Subtitle murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
Statement of responsibility, etc. Erik Larson
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication New York :
Publisher Vintage Books,
Date c2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 447 p. ;
Size 21 cm.
GENERAL NOTE
General note Notes<br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-429) and index.<br/>National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2003.<br/><br/>
SUMMARY
Summary 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.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Heading Mudgett, Herman W., 1861-1896
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Topical Heading Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912
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Topical Heading Serial murderers
Geographic Illinois
-- Chicago
General Biography
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Topical Heading Architects
Geographic iIllinois
-- Chicago
General Biography
MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL AUTHOR
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SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
-- 27264
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-- 27267
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22/11/2022 2 2 364.15230977311 LA DE T0062167 03/10/2022 01/04/2019 REGULAR April2019   Dewey Decimal Classification       University of Wollongong in Dubai University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 01/04/2019 Kinokuniya Bookshop LLC