04704cam a2200565 4500 760781070 TxAuBib 20230213120000.0 080711s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781400076314 electronic bk. : Adobe Reader 1400076315 electronic bk. : Adobe Reader B000FC0ZIA Amazon cf5326e9-9287-472d-93f2-66587f07bfa7 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 36481 OverDrive (Product ID) 98115 98115 98115 (OCoLC)233697520 TEFOD TEFOD TEFOD SDD TEFOD TXN TxAuBib Larson, Erik. The devil in the white city [Libby] : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson. New York : Crown Publishers, 2003. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 12MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Title from eBook information screen. "Vintage eBooks"--Cover image. Includes bibliographical references and index. Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic -- Frozen music -- An awful fight -- In the white city -- Cruelty revealed -- Epilogue, the last crossing. Two 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. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1800 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2974 KB). Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-04-13 10:07:10. Imported from MARC file. Mudgett, Herman W 1861-1896. Burnham, Daniel Hudson 1846-1912. World's Columbian Exposition 1893 Chicago, Ill. Serial murderers Illinois Chicago Biography. Serial murders Illinois Chicago Case studies. Architects Illinois Chicago Biography. Chicago (Ill) History 19th century. Electronic books. http://hadc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=CF5326E9-9287-472D-93F2-66587F07BFA7 https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/CF5/326/E9/DevilintheWhiteCityASagaofMagicandMur9781400076314.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CF5326E9-9287-472D-93F2-66587F07BFA7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/CF5/326/E9/DevilintheWhiteCityASagaofMagicandMur9781400076314.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CF5326E9-9287-472D-93F2-66587F07BFA7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/CF5/326/E9/DevilintheWhiteCityASagaofMagicandMur9781400076314.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CF5326E9-9287-472D-93F2-66587F07BFA7&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) RV8