The Devil in the White City (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the title of The Devil in the White City Friday, October 30 2009.

Wordsmith Wannabe edited the awards of The Devil in the White City Friday, October 16 2009.

• Added an award: National Book Award
• Added category of an award: National Book Award Nonfiction
• Added year of an award: National Book Award 2003
• Checked finalist field of an award: National Book Award
• Added an award: Winner of the Edgar Award
• Added category of an award: Winner of the Edgar Award Best Fact Crime
• Added year of an award: Winner of the Edgar Award 2004

Wordsmith Wannabe edited the summary of The Devil in the White City Friday, October 16 2009.

• 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.

  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.

  To find outmore about this book, go to http://www.DevilInTheWhiteCity.com

Timothy Gray approved something witty’s request to change the contributors of The Devil in the White City Thursday, August 13 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Erik Larson: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Erik Larson: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved something witty’s request to change the contributors of The Devil in the White City Thursday, August 13 2009.

• Added a contributor: Erik Larson: (Primary Author)

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 61 books, including The Devil in the White City, Tuesday, August 11 2009.

Timothy Gray changed the title of The Devil in the White City Tuesday, August 11 2009.

something witty edited the contributors of The Devil in the White City Tuesday, August 11 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Erik Larson: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Erik Larson: (Primary Author)

something witty edited the contributors of The Devil in the White City Tuesday, August 11 2009.

• Added a contributor: Erik Larson: (None)

something witty edited the contributors of The Devil in the White City Tuesday, August 11 2009.

• Added a contributor: Erik Larson: (Primary Author)