-Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating.- --
Chicago Tribune
-A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel. . . . It doesn't hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction.-
-- The New York Times
-So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already.- --
Esquire
-Another successful exploration of American history. . . . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair.-
-- USA Today
-As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find.-
-- San Francisco Chronicle
-Paints a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come.-
-- Entertainment Weekly
-A wonderfully unexpected book. . . Larson is a historian . . . with a novelist's soul.-
-- Chicago Sun-Times
"Engrossing . . . exceedingly well documented . . . utterly fascinating." --
Chicago Tribune "A dynamic, enveloping book. . . . Relentlessly fuses history and entertainment to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel. . . . It doesn't hurt that this truth is stranger than fiction."
-- The New York Times "So good, you find yourself asking how you could not know this already." --
Esquire "Another successful exploration of American history. . . . Larson skillfully balances the grisly details with the far-reaching implications of the World's Fair."
-- USA Today "As absorbing a piece of popular history as one will ever hope to find."
-- San Francisco Chronicle "Paints a dazzling picture of the Gilded Age and prefigure the American century to come."
-- Entertainment Weekly "A wonderfully unexpected book. . . Larson is a historian . . . with a novelist's soul."
-- Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago, 1893. One man built a heaven on earth. Another built hell beside it...