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Title: Interesting but novelized history
Review: This book introduces us to the making of the 1893 Chicago world's fair, known as the Columbian Exposition. Larson's hero is architect Daniel Burnham, who overcame huge obstacles to bring this project to fruition. Larson is persuasive in describing the achievements of Burnham and his allies, but less convincing when he argues that this extremely ambitious fair marked a turning point in American history. In parallel, Larson describes the actions of mass murderer H.H. Holmes, who was killing women in Chicago at that time. This seems an odd conjunction, as if the author were trying to leaven the Fair's history with a frisson of horror. A more serious criticism is that Larson invents the thoughts, feelings, and oral statements of many characters, apparently based on his own speculations. The book would have been interesting enough without going beyond the facts.
