книга The Devil In The White City
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The Devil In The White City

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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the...Ещё
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earther, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men toegther with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters, including as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison and some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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Beverly L. Coleman

29 октября 2018 г.

WHAT A GIFT! The brand of drama that went on behind the scenes of the building of the Chicago...Ещё
WHAT A GIFT! The brand of drama that went on behind the scenes of the building of the Chicago Fair was incredible yet amazing. I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book! Being a native Chicagoan, the southside was a special and familiar character in this book. Reading details about the ingenuity and many processes that came out of the Fair, made it especially hard to put this book down. I could see the wilderness that were Jackson and Washington Parks. I could see the White City!!

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