I think I’ve now read the last of Erik Larson’s books written to date.  I’d put off The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America for quite a while because I’m not so big into gore & I knew this was a tale of a serial killer. It’s hard not to call In the Garden of the Beasts my favorite (who can resist family drama and intrigue at the American Embassy in Berlin as the Nazis came to power?). But the The Devil in the White City really is a marvel. There’s the invention of the Ferris Wheel, the birth of modern landscape architecture, Chicago’s heyday, unionization and muckrakers, and more. The post script alone is worth a look. Was Walt Disney’s Magic Kingdom based on The White City (Disney grew up close to the Fairgrounds & his father worked building the Fairgrounds). Frank Lloyd Wright worked for Adler and Sullivan, who also worked on the Fair. How did the Fair influence his later works….The attached photo is from one of FL Wright’s designs in Oak Park, within a couple of miles of Jackson Park, where the Fair of 1892 (400 anniversary of Colombus finding his way to the “New World”) was held.