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Larson, Erik
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Mudgett, Herman W., 1861-1896
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Serial murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Serial murderers -- Illinois -- Biography.
Serial murderers -- Biography.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- Case studies.
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The
Devil
in the
White
City
: murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson.
by
Larson, Erik
New York, NY : Crown Publishers, c2003.
Subjects
Mudgett, Herman W., 1861-1896
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Serial murderers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Serial murderers -- Illinois -- Biography.
Serial murderers -- Biography.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- Illinois -- Case studies.
Serial murders -- Case studies.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0609608444 :
0375725601 (pbk.) :
Contents:
Evils imminent -- Prologue, aboard the Olympic (1912) -- Frozen music (Chicago, 1890-91) -- An awful fight (Chicago, 1891-93) -- In the
White
City
(May-October 1893) -- Cruelty revealed (1895) -- Epilogue, the last crossing.
Summary:
Names mentioned include: Daniel Hudson Burnham, the architect of the Chicago World's Fair (1893) and builder of the Flatiron Building in New York
City
and Union Station in Washington, D.C.; Frederick Law Olmsted; Charles McKim; Louis Sullivan; Buffalo Bill; Theodore Dreiser; Susan B. Anthony; Thomas Edison; Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others of the Gilded Age.
Description:
xi, 447 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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