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Book: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
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Erik Larson _ The Devil in the White City:
Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir ine's blood.
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At first alienists describes this condition as "moral insanity" and those who exhibited the disorder as "moral imbeciles." They later adopted the term "psychopath"."
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She lapsed into "melancholia," a sweet name for depression.
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How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
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He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine.
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Such peaceful intervals never lasted long.
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It could be done, because it had to be done
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But one thing was quite clear…" he wrote. "{B}eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.
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Erik Larson _ The Devil in the White City:
Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation.
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As the crowd thundered, a man eased up beside a thin, pale woman with a bent neck. In the next instant Jane Addams realized her purse was gone. The great fair had begun.
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A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.
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It was a difficult ride for him. He had passed this way before, to bury John Root. The fair had begun with death, and now it had ended with death.
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