Erik Larson
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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2003
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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2011
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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2015
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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2020
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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1999
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Thunderstruck
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2006
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No One Goes Alone
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2021
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Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
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1994
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
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2024
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The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities
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1992
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“It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
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