The Devil in the White City

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“As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find. Readers will soon forget that Larson’s work is nonfiction and, instead, imagine that they are holding a fictional page-turner.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“[Larson] has a spooky eye for the small stories that hum and flicker underneath grand narratives, the unlikely intersections that so beautifully illuminate and amplify our understanding of history. In the soaring dreams of Daniel Burnham and the hellish ones of Henry Holmes, Larson has paired two unlikely stories that paint a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come.”

—Entertainment Weekly

“In a style that is suspenseful as well as entertaining, Larson shows us how both our highest aspirations and our most loathsome urges figured in the creation of the modern world.”

—People

“Enchanting.”

—Newsweek

“A wonderfully unexpected book…. An essential volume in the annals of true crime literature that evokes Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Larson is a historian … with a novelist’s soul.”

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