The Devil in the White City
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The Chicago World’s Honest of 1893 was one of the most spectacular exhibitions the world has ever seen. This is the tale of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked – an architect and a serial killer. The architect as Daniel H. Burnham, who made the White City, a magical landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H.H. Holmes, a handsome young doctor with arresting blue eyes, who used the attraction of the fantastic honest – and his own devilish charms – to lure scores of young women to their death. Holmes would stroll through the honest at night, when an electric dynamo transformed it into an incandescent fairyland, with an unsuspecting victim on each arm. While Burnham was overcoming politics, personality clashes and the ferocious Chicago winds to bring about the transformation of swampy Jackson Park into the White City, Holmes had a building project of his own just west of the fairground. He called it the Worlds Honest Hotel; in reality it was a torture palace, perfect with a gas chamber and crematorium. This is the tale of the men and women whose lives were irrevocably changed by the Chicago World Honest, and of Burnham and Holmes. Spicing the narrative are the tales of a cast of past characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin and Theodore Dreiser.Amazon.com Review
Leader Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World’s Honest with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book’s categorization to be sure that The Devil in the White City is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the tales of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect reliable for the honest’s construction, and H.H. Holmes, a serial killer masquerading as a charming doctor. Burnham’s challenge was immense. In a fleeting period of time, he was forced to overcome the death of his partner and copious additional obstacles to construct the legendary “White City” around which the honest was built. His efforts to perfect the project, and the honest’s incredible success, are skillfully related along with entertaining appearances by such notables as Buffalo Bill Cody, Susan B. Anthony, and Thomas Edison. The activities of the sinister Dr. Holmes, who is believed to be reliable for scores of murders around the time of the honest, are equally remarkable. He devised and erected the World’s Honest Hotel, perfect with crematorium and gas chamber, near the fairgrounds and used the event as well as his own charismatic personality to lure victims. Combining the tales of an architect and a killer in one book, mostly in alternating chapters, seems like an odd choice but it works. The magical appeal and horrifying dark side of 19th-century Chicago are both revealed through Larson’s skillful writing. –John Moe
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The best part of the book was reading about Mr. Olmstead’s dental problems – his roaring ears and his shortented leg (he’d had a carriage manufacturing accident). I’d like to read more books about the dental problems of past luminaries. I’d have agreed the book privileged inscription, but there was no information about Mr. Holmes teeth whatsoever.
Cody Wyoming was founded by Buffalo Bill Cody.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The book is a excellent until page 175. Here the leader purports that Frank Millet invented the paint system that made the White City white, when it was Joseph Binks who invented it and provided it to the honest. Joe invented it prior to the honest when faced with painting the huge basements at the Marshall Meadow’s store where he worked as an engineer.
After all, the spray paint gun is called a Binks, and the fact that Joe’s invention made the White City white in an incredibly fleeting time is what made his company, Binks Spray Sytems, later Binks Manufacturing, an international success before long after the honest. Who has ever heard of a Millet Spray Gun?
Sorry to say, this type of error causes all the facts in the book to be questioned.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Tale already done to perfection in The Scarlet Mansion by Allan Eckert…couldn’t place it down!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was an brilliant book, both historically and the thorough tale told. It provides an inciteful look at what Chicago was like in the late 1800’s and about some of the colorful characters that lived there….both excellent and very evil. I’d recommend this to anyone interested in history, strong characters and murder. A top notch book!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is sold as NON-FICTION!!! It is, at best HISTORICAL FICTION. Why does a guy like James Frey get sued for embelishing his life tale, but this guy gets to reap millions selling something as non-fiction that is truly fiction? You got to be kidding me! I could not get past the fact that the book was made up, so i stopped reading it after 100 pages.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5