The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America Audiobook (Free)

In The Devil in the White Town, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as nothing you’ve seen prior.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his selected work, embodied an element of the great active that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s excellent director of functions and the builder of many from the country’s most important structures, like the Flatiron Building in New York and Union about The Devil in the White colored City: Murder, Magic, and Madness on the Fair That Changed America Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a doctor who, in a malign parody from the White colored City, constructed his “World’s Fair Hotel” just western world of the fairgrounds-a torture palace filled with dissection desk, gas chamber, and 3,000-level crematorium.

Burnham overcame tremendous obstructions and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Rules Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, while others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White colored Town, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young females to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling can be that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that wish city from the lake.

The Devil in the White colored City pulls the reader into a period 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, among others. 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.

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