03863cam a2200445 4500 409510356 TxAuBib 20191105120000.0 ||||||s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780739353011 0739353012 52d9168b-b6d4-4599-a022-44ec8a6fe1ee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 114553 OverDrive (Product ID) 114553 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Larson, Erik, 1954- The Devil in the White City [Libby] : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2002. 20th Century. Modern. United States. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 413MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 412MB. History. Sociology. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML: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.<br /> <b>The</b> <b>Devil in the White City</b> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> To find out more about this book, go to http://www.DevilInTheWhiteCity.com.<br /> <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>. Media Type: Audiobook. National Book Award Finalist. Edgar Allan Poe Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-01-06 22:00:03. Brick, Scott. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/114553-TheDevilInTheWhiteCity.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/114553-TheDevilInTheWhiteCity.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=52D9168B-B6D4-4599-A022-44EC8A6FE1EE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/114553-TheDevilInTheWhiteCity.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/114553-TheDevilInTheWhiteCity.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=52D9168B-B6D4-4599-A022-44EC8A6FE1EE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXDRI