Staff Book and Media Recommendations

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

Erik Larson

The Devil in the White City is an intriguing, true account of nineteenth-century America and is written so that each chapter takes the reader into the lives of two, very different men. Within the historical context of the Gilded Age, Larson provides a glimpse into good and evil, why some men try to create the impossible while others strive to generate misery. ~ Dana Jackson-Hardwick

Reviewed November 2008