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Architects Illinois Chicago Biography Audiobooks Burnham, Daniel Hudson 1846-1912 Chicago (Ill.) History 19th century Illinois Chicago Mudgett, Herman W 1861-1896 Serial murderers Illinois Chicago Biography Serial murders Serial murders Illinois Chicago Case studies World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)Larson, Erik
Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
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Summary: Abridged.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003
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Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003