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2019-08-24 15:41

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If anyone can recommend fun historical books like this or like The Professor and the Madman, please let me know. As much as I like biographies and histories about political or military leaders, these books that dig into tidbits of history are a lot of fun. This one is about the Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1893. It is also about H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who built a hotel near the fair. The book is arranged so that you read one chapter about the Fair's development and then one chapter about Holmes. Some critics have said that it feels disjointed, but I don't agree. The fit together chronologically, and it's nice to know what is going on in Chicago while Holmes is preparing his hotel and then luring his victims. I think a book solely about the Fair, while interesting, would not have been as compelling. Likewise, a book solely about Holmes would have been hard to place in context. Together, I felt like I was getting a nice overview of an important event in US history (the even that started the City Beautiful movement) while digging into one aspect of it--one of America's first and worst serial killers. Also, Larson's writing is easy to read and flows nicely. Sometimes I think the historical perspective is sacrificed for readability, but I did not feel that way in this book. On the contrary, I felt like I was getting a pretty good helping of interesting tidbits. Sure, there's only a small discussion about American architecture and about the political context of the fair, but that's not what this book is about. This book evokes the culture of Chicago at the end of an age. It's fun.

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