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Mike Y
  • Rated 4 stars

When I was a kid my grandmother gave me a very old picture book with sepia tone photos from the Columbian Exposition, the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Since that time I have collected books about that Fair, and when I saw this book I was interested to read it. Larson does a great job of tying the facts of a sensational murder case with the events and the features of the first great Exposition of the 'Modern Age'. I was not so interested in the murder case, but I have to admit that he made...

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Kelly R
  • Rated 2 stars

Two stories in one that might have been better treated as separate.

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  • Rikki

    rikki said:

    I had to read this for one of my college history classes and I have to admit, this is the first book I enjoyed that I was forced to read. Normally I don't care much for reading history textbooks (pretty sad for a history education minor huh? ^^ ) but this kept me intrigued He told everything with as much accuracy as possible but told it as though, to me anyway, it was fiction. I admit that it was slow going in some places, but you find that with almost every book out there. I just know I learned a lot from this book for my class that I don't think I would have without it. That's all that matters to me, if I learned something.

    posted Monday, August 11 2008
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  • ctmock

    ctmock said:

    Boring!

    posted Sunday, July 6 2008
  • Stuart Clark

    stuart clark said:

    Hey nikkis, that's neat!

    I agree with agnes01. I think the serial killer aspects of the book were really what drove it forward - I was much more interested in getting back to that subplot than I was learning all about the fair (which is pretty sad really). Without the serial killer story in there I think it would have been quite a dull book, but as it was, I enjoyed it.

    posted Thursday, May 22 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • nikkis

    nikkis said:

    To see this amazing simulation of what the White City looked like, see this research project conducted by UCLA's Urban Simulation Team. It is amazing!
    http://www.ust.ucla.edu/ustweb/Projects/columbian_expo.htm

    posted Thursday, May 22 2008

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