So I just finished Devil in the White City by Erik Larson and it was so flippin' good. Larson tells the story of two men: one who spent his life building beautiful things that inspired his fellow men, and one that spent his life in a cruelly destructive way. Daniel Hudson Burnham was the chief architect of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the book tells the story of his fascinating struggle to bring the Fair into existence. But while Hudson was building the Fair, another man, Dr. H. H. Holmes, was a few blocks away, luring unsuspecting people into his hotel and murdering them. It’s hard to believe that Jack the Ripper is so famous and yet I had never heard of Dr. Holmes. He was one creepy, nightmare-inducing dude.
The book is one part history, one part true-crime novel, and all parts good. Get thee to a library!
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What's a library? What is its' URL?
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