I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.
About This Quote
About Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America.
Themes
- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation