Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
The story of two men's obsessions with the Chicago World's Fair, one its architect, the other a murderer. "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.
Review Quotes: "Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." --Chicago Tribune
"A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel. . . . It doesn't hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction."
--The New York Times "So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already." --
Esquire "Another successful exploration of American history. . . . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair."
--USA Today "As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find."
--San Francisco Chronicle "Paint[s] a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure[s] the American century to come."
--Entertainment Weekly "A wonderfully unexpected book. . . Larson is a historian . . . with a novelist's soul."
--Chicago Sun-Times
