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Book Review of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
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Non Fiction selection for my October bookclub. I really wanted to enjoy this book but it took me so long to finish. The topic is the Chicago World Fair in 1893. It explains how the fair came about to be in Chicago and all the planning involved to get it going. At the same time there was a serial killer in Chicago and Larson created a narrative to relate to us what happened. Good stories just took too long to complete.