Monday, June 18, 2007

The Devil in the White City


This spring I read a great book called "The Devil in the White City" and it's an historical book about the building of the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, revolving around two main real life persons, Daniel Burnham the architect behind the design of this World's Fair, and H.H. Holmes, probably America's first serial killer, who was doing his bad deeds in southern Chicago at the time leading up to and during the Exposition of 1893. There was no real connection between these two persons, they just happened to each have been doing "big things" in Chicago at the same time. Very fascinating story, and a true one. The book reads like a great novel, but the fact that it's all true is even more compelling.

1 comment:

Beth F said...

I have this on on my MP3 player. I'm determined to get to it in 2009.