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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. 447, [1] pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index. The cover has some wear and soiling. Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American author. Born in Brooklyn, Larson grew up in Freeport, Long Island, New York. He studied Russian history at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude in 1976. After a year off, he attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, graduating in 1978. Larson's first newspaper job was with The Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where he wrote about murder, witches, environmental poisons, and other "equally pleasant" things. He became a features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine, where he is still a contributing writer. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and other publications. Larson has also written a number of books, beginning in 1992 with The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities, followed in 1995 by Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun. Larson's next books were Isaac's Storm, about the experiences of Isaac Cline during the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, and The Devil in the White City, about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and a series of murders by H. H. Holmes that were committed in the city around the time of the Fair. The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. In 2006, Larson published Thunderstruck, which intersperses the story of Hawley H. Crippen with that of Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of radio. Erik Larson intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style. Set in Chicago during the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, it tells the story of World's Fair architect Daniel Burnham and of H. H. Holmes, a criminal figure widely considered the first serial killer in the United States. The Devil in the White City is divided into four parts, the first three happening in Chicago between 1890 and 1893, while part four of the book takes place in Philadelphia circa 1895. The book interweaves the true tales of Daniel Burnham, the architect behind the 1893 World's Fair, and H. H. Holmes, a serial killer who lured his victims to their deaths in his elaborately constructed "Murder Castle". Burnham ran into many challenges when it came to the World's Fair including a fire, difficulty engineering the buildings to be safe, and a lack of funds for the fair. H. H. Holmes was responsible for multiple murders. His "dungeon" was equipped with secret rooms, torture chambers, and he even had access to a big furnace to cremate the bodies of his victims. Holmes was known as a charming man who had the ability to seduce his victims. He mainly targeted women in the book. According to Book Marks, the book received "positive" reviews based on eight critic reviews with three being "rave" and two being "positive" and one being "mixed". Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised the book as "vivid" and "lively", and commented on how the research done by Larson on the many "odd and amazing" events of the 1893 exhibition are "given shape and energy" by his "dramatic inclinations". In a review for Newsweek, Malcolm Jones wrote "the story of the fair was "too enchanting". Derived from a Kirkus review: A vivid account of the tragedies and triumphs of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the concurrent depravities of America's first serial killer. In roughly alternating chapters, Larson tells the stories of Daniel H. Burnham, chief planner and architect of expo. Roseanne Olson (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition blue boards, black spine and copper spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Erik Larson; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Abraham Lincoln etc.; Dark Magic (A Note To Readers); Sources and Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Notes; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white map. "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile plunges us into the simmering crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the flunky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passion of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter - a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trilas of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them." At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable - one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink - a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late." - from the inner front jacket flap. Bachman, Barbara M. (book design); Kochman, Anna (jacket design); O'Brien, Tim (jacket illustration; Subin, Nina (author photograph) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition [stated]. Later printing. xii, [4], 585, [7] pages. Map. A Note to Readers. Sources. Bibliography. Index. The front of the dust jacket has some minor rippling. Erik Larson (born January 3, 1954) is an American journalist and author of mostly historical nonfiction books. His books include Isaac's Storm (1999), The Devil in the White City (2003), In the Garden of Beasts (2011), and Dead Wake (2015). The Devil in the White City won the 2004 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category, among other awards. Larson's first newspaper job was with the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where he wrote about murder, witches, environmental poisons, and other "equally pleasant" things. He later became a features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and other publications. Larson has written a number of books, mostly historical nonfiction. In a 2016 interview with the Knoxville Mercury, Larson stated he does all of his own research, asking, "why should I let anybody else have that fun?" He included among his literary inspirations David McCullough, Barbara Tuchman, David Halberstam, and Walter Lord. Larson's 2006 book, Thunderstruck, intersperses the story of Hawley Harvey Crippen with that of Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of radio. Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State University, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and he has spoken to audiences across the United States. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--that she was willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of brinksmanship but also a domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his wartime residence, Ditchley, where Churchill and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest. Drawing on a wealth of untapped sources, including recently declassified files, intelligence reports, and personal diaries only now available, Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their daughters, Sarah, Diana, and the youngest, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; her illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the cadre of close advisors who comprised Churchill's "Secret Circle," including his observant private secretary, John Colville; newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook; and Federick Lindemann. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when--in the face of unrelenting horror--Churchill's eloquence, strategic brilliance, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together. The Splendid and the Vile is a biography of Winston Churchill during his first year as British Prime Minister, written by Erik Larson. In his first year as Prime Minister, Churchill was tested by the start of "The Blitz", a sustained bombing campaign against Great Britain by Adolph Hitler's air force, the Luftwaffe. Larson focuses on Mr. Churchill's experience with the actual words and stories of his family, friends, employees, political allies and enemies, as well as Britain's allies and enemies. The Splendid and the Vile includes a detailed description of Great Britain's first years at war, and extends to the actions of United States during the period, especially Franklin Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program. The book concludes with the entrance of the U.S. into the war following Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Like other books by Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile is well-documented non-fiction, but it reads like a novel. Jeffrey Ward (Map), Nina Subin (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xii, 585pp, [3]. Black hardcover, gray boards, title stamped on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with a full number line. Appears unread. In the publisher's fine dust jacket, $32.00 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear. Signed by the author on the title page. Larson's account of Winston Churchill's first year as prime minister follows the Churchill family, 10 Downing Street, Chequers, Ditchley, and London during the Blitz. The first edition, first printing of The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson, signed by the author. (illustrator). Signed.…

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