vote to host the World’s Fair and beat out its competition New York City. In only two short years‚ the White City was built. The fair brought in an estimated 40 million visitors in the only six months it was open. Daniel Burnham was the chief architect of the World’s Fair. Burnham had the staggering task of hiring the best of the best engineers‚ architects and designers in the country. No one thought the task of building the World’s Fair in the Black City of Chicago would be accomplished given the
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Progressive Party. Initially the PPP had support in both the Indian-descent and African-descent communities (Guyana). One of the supporters of the PPP within the African-descent community was Linden Forbes Burnham. Burnham came from a more middle class background than Cheddi Jagan did. Burnham was the son of school teacher and lived in the Georgetown
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Changed America. New York: Vintage‚ 2004. 447 Pages. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson is a book centered around the events of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. This book features a dual storyline following the events of Daniel Burnham and his involvement in the architectural design of the World’s Fair‚ and Dr. H H Holmes‚ a man using Chicago and the World’s Fair to his advantage in a killing spree. Though these two story lines do not interact with each other directly‚ it serves
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Chicago during the Gilded Age. Larson transports readers to a moment in American history that shows the splendor of imagination evident at the time‚ and the violence and poverty that surrounded it. This story is one of good and evil. Daniel Burnham‚ the brilliant architect responsible for the grandeur and construction of The World’s Fair nicknamed the White City‚ versus H.H. Holmes‚ the morally deprived serial killer who used the Black City image of Chicago as a playground for finding
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Holmes‚ in many ways embody the opposing forces of the age. Burnham was responsible for building the White City‚ overcoming a series of crushing professional obstacles and personal tragedies to make the Fair the magical‚ awe-inspiring event that it was. He brought together some of the greatest architects of the day—Charles
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riveting account of the first modern serial killer of the 19th century in America. Published in 2003‚ Larson carefully and accurately creates a connecting plot of two very different characters. The first character introduced in the book is Daniel Burnham. Burnham is the architect who builds the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. He faces many challenges in his journey to construct the most incredible World’s Fair the world has ever seen. After the death of Burnham’s partner‚ John Root‚ he must make many compromises
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during the World’s Columbian Exposition. In 1893‚ Chicago was home to more than the World’s Fair; it was also the home of America’s very own Jack the Ripper‚ Dr. Henry H. Holmes. While a team of the most brilliant architects of the age led by Daniel Burnham raced against time to produce a World’s Fair that could outshine Paris’ Exposition Universelle‚ H. H. Holmes took his time in methodically building
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two polar opposite men during the building of the World’s Fair in Chicago. It surrounds two characters‚ both extremely talented at their ‘craft’ and perfectly depicts the rush for industrialization in this time. It follows the lives of Daniel H. Burnham‚ the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures‚ and Henry H. Holmes‚ a serial killer who built a hotel turned torture chamber complete with a dissection table‚ gas chamber‚ and crematorium
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Devil in the White City‚ a monograph written by Erik Larson‚ detailing the lives of two men during the years of construction and preparation for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (alternately‚ The World’s Columbian Exposition)— Daniel Burnham‚ the lead architect of the fair; and Herman Mudgett (alias: H.H. Holmes‚ among others)‚ a serial killer taking advantage of young women flocking to the city in search of the chance to lead their own lives. That the darkest shadows exist directly under the brightest
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Chicago has become one of the largest cities in the United States‚ ranking the third largest in 2012. Housing nearly 2.7 million civilians‚ it has shown exponential growth throughout the century and is now an icon for metropolitan cities (Largest). However‚ modern day Chicago is drastically different from its past. This topic has been widely researched to discover what molded Chicago into the city is it today. Numerous books‚ articles‚ and other publications discuss several possibilities of this
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