The Devil in the White City

[Dave Monroe]

>From Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder,
Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
(New York: Crown, 2003), "Prologue: Aboard the
Olympic," pp. 3-7 ...

"Everything about the fair was exotic and, above all,
immense.  The fair occupied over one square mile and
filld more than two hundred buildings....  One
structure, rejected at first as a 'onstrosity,' became
tyhe fair's emblem, a machine so huge and terrifying
that it instantly eclipsed the tower of Alexanre
Eiffel that had so wounded America's pride.  Never
before had so many of history's brightest lights,
including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Ssan B.
Anthony, Jane Addams, Clarence Darrow, George
Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, Henry Adams, Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, nikola Tesla, Ignace Paderewski,
Philip Armour,and Marshall field, gathered in one
place at one time.  Richard Harding Davis called the
exposition 'the greatest event in the history of the
country since the Civil War.'
   "That something magical had occured in that summer
of the world's fair was beyond doubt, but darkness too
had touched the fair....  The rational explanation
laid balme on the forces if change that during this
time had convulsed Chicago....
   "For the supernaturally inclined ...." (pp. 5-6)

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