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The Devil In The White City Murder

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The Devil in the White City Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America In the book the author tone switches from both casual and intense, as show through the two main characters, Burnham and Holmes Daniel Burnham was the architect who got a contract to build the Chicago World’s Fair with John Root in 1893, however John Root dies before the contraction even starts. The author describes the Devil in the White city as how wherever there is good, there is also evil. The purpose of the Chicago world Fair being built was to show the world the greatness of America. During the 1980s the United States was not in a good position, economical wise. The style of this book is formal yet casual, Larsons purpose for writing this book was to
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