My sister bought a copy of this book for my dad this Christmas, despite my father’s recent leanings towards not reading so much. It looked interesting enough that I picked it up for myself a couple of days later on impulse. Great read! I have often railed that the melding of interesting history and a novelistic rhetoric has long been unmade–Larson has done it, all without taking too many liberties. Even if murder and mayhem surrounding Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair doesn’t immediately grab you, try this one.

****1/2 (out of 5)

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