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The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
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Chicago, 1893: as the city races to build the World's Columbian Exposition, an architect drives thousands of workers toward an impossible deadline while a charming young doctor opens a hotel near the fairgrounds and begins a very different project. Narrative nonfiction built from letters, testimony and archives, it alternates between the invention of the White City, with its electric light, engineering feats and civic ambition, and the quiet disappearances happening at its edges. The result is a richly detailed portrait of a boom town, its crowds and its blind spots, told with the momentum of a thriller and grounded throughout in documented fact.
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