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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....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003
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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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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LARLarson, Erik.
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
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Contents: Bodies -- Skeletons -- Skin -- Mirrors -- In the city -- Devil and me -- The chase -- Toes -- White tape -- Laveau
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOCCollins, Max Allan
Summary: "In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case--his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2011
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4 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DODD, WILLIAM E. LARCall number: 943.086 DODD, WILLIAM E. LAR
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Summary: A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUTTER, THOMAS D APTLarson, Erik.
Summary: The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2011
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Larson, Erik
Summary: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Describes the Civil War from Abraham Lincoln's point of view in Washington, D.C., chronicling how the president supported fugitive slaves and also personally comforted wounded troops during wartime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013