Pan-American Exposition

Peter Keating, with the secret assistance of Roark, enters Cosmo-Slotnick’s “Most Beautiful Building in the World” contest to build a ten million dollar skyscraper for the company. In winning the competition, Keating solidifies his fame in the architecture community, but also seals his fate as a second-hander because he took credit for Roark’s design. The design was classically ornate Renaissance, which Roark cannot stand, but the public adores. Many say that despite the fact that The…

Listen, I know it’s a bit late, but I’m finally getting back to you on those book recommendations. I just finished reading a novel called The Devil in the White City, and I’m pretty sure that you would find it quite interesting. The book is set around the time of the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and follows the parallel paths of Daniel Burnham, the fair’s architect, and H. H. Holmes, a prolific serial killer who used the fair’s magnetic allure to find his victims. Burnham’s storyline is about…

Chicago Lit Final Essay Throughout the semester we as students have read many different pieces of literature that have helped characterize Chicago. With many opinions and various perspectives to consider Chicago is a twisted city, nobody is safe from its grasp. The city, being divided, has made it difficult to accurately depict Chicago's true nature. Some may say that the city brings nothing but wonder and amazement from the eyes of a tourist however, what lies beneath the tales of wonder is…

place of work, but also a place of leisure and a place that people of all identities can come together. The purpose of the exposition was to bring the art and industry of all nations around the world together in one place. In the summer of 1893 Chicago was transformed and from May to October the city served as a place for all of America to visit. In analyzing the Columbian Exposition I will focus on the power of the cities and how over time they have transformed…

Chicago World's Fair also known as The World's Columbian Exposition, to the storyline of the book. Also because the novel is a type of biography or non-fiction story, this helps study the impact of The World’s Columbian Exposition in society at the time and how it played a part in American History. This topic became of my interest because being I am aware of the great innovation that the fair brought to not just The…

In 1893 the World's Fair was becoming a major event. There was a variety of conflicts going on during the time period it was forming. Deaths, killings, architectural problems were all a conflict when trying to create the World's Fair. This time period was not as easy as it seemed either; they were in the midst of a depression. This made it harder to do what was needed to be done. In the book The Devil in the White City gives a wonderful and nonfictional story about the Worlds Fair that will have…

New York Burning, the award-winning book by Jill Lepore takes place in the mid-eighteenth century of New York City’s, Manhattan during a period where around 20% of the residents were enslaved. The book focuses primarily on the slave rebellion of 1741 and the vicious retaliation that had occurred at the time. However, the events that occurred in 1741 were quite unique seeing as there were plots to which around 200 people were involved. They wanted to take revenge on the towns people and murder…

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Transmuted America is a 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson. Mr. Larson relishes to embroider the past. So he relentlessly fuses history and regalement to give this nonfiction book the dramatic effect of a novel, consummate with abundant cross-cutting and foreshadowing. Mundanely these might be alarming tactics, but in the case of this material they do the artifice. Mr. Larson has indicted a dynamic, enveloping book filled…

The Devil in the White City is a nonfiction book that is divided into four different parts. The last part takes the reader into two perspectives. One perspective is of Daniel Burnham who was the architect that built the 1893 Chicago’s World Fair. The book describes of the obstacles that Daniel and his partner John Root had to overcome. These obstacles include the two of them having to figure out an attraction more spectacular than the Eiffel Tower. Also, Daniel was left building the fair by…

Holmes is even crazier, says the devil is inside him. nice! Reflection: This part of the book was the exposition of the story. Burnham hired architects to help build the fair after Chicago won the bid, and Jackson Park was the selected venue. Things are starting to come together, but meanwhile there are many drawbacks. Many architects who were hired are questioning…