The Devil in the White City A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America
eBook - 2004
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile comes 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. “As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.” —San Francisco ChronicleCombining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.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,...
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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- English
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File Size | 11 GB |
ISBN | 9781400076314 |
Release Date | 2/10/2004 |
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ASIN | B000FC0ZIA |
Release Date | 2/10/2004 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781400076314 |
Release Date | 2/10/2004 |