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This book helped me understand the story of the common man. It put color to an already existing knowledge base.

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It shows the industrializing of cities after the civil war with how railroads and cities are bigger than ever before. Italian immigrants are used to help build the fair, which causes the unions to strike because they want the jobs, especially as the recession is taking place. It shows the recession through how banks are failing and how people are sleeping at the police station and the city hall. Burnham also has to lay off workers despite knowing it could mean starvation for families. Another example of the recession is how people can not pay for the train ride, the entrance fee, and the cost of food at the fair. After the fair the Pullman railway company does not have as many passengers as after the fair and has to reduce workers wages. Like we discussed in class this led to a strike.

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It shows the industrializing of cities after the civil war with how railroads and cities are bigger than ever before. Italian immigrants are used to help build the fair, which causes the unions to strike because they want the jobs, especially as the recession is taking place. It shows the recession through how banks are failing and how people are sleeping at the police station and the city hall. Burnham also has to lay off workers despite knowing it could mean starvation for families. Another example of the recession is how people can not pay for the train ride, the entrance fee, and the cost of food at the fair. After the fair the Pullman railway company does not have as many passengers as after the fair and has to reduce workers wages. Like we discussed in class this led to a strike.

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Most books of the time just write about the mystery killing or the high effort business man, but they never tell it all. This book provides a broad, clear picture of society at the time, and helps with context of that era between the top and the bottom.

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understand the corruption and how even the fair sounded like an amazing thing happening, bad things were happening at the same time. It also shows the new inventions that were created and their effect on modern day society.

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Reading the Devil in the White City helped me better understand the Gilded Age from the perspective of the common man. The book painted a picture of what life was like as a common person that helped add color to already established knowledge base.

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It helped me understand the Gilded Age better by showing the vast contrast between how things appeared, with the fair and everything, and how things really were, with the common people of the city.

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Both points of view were great examples of how the Gilded age was bright and pretty on the outside, but underneath it was harsh and corrupt. Each part about Holmes and Burnham also really gave perspective of the opposite upbringings and wealth each person had and their goals and achievements. I believe without reading about one or the other, one would not be able to fully capture what the Gilded age was like

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The Devil in the White City helped me better understand the Gilded Age as far as how labor unions were a big part of protests and disrupted Immigrants work in order to show about how upset they were. Examples of the Spoils System were shown as Prendergast hoped that he would receive a governmental job in return for his support for Harrison.

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It gave more insight to how things were socially and politically. Everyone wanted to be famous and rich and have their name on some product or building. It also showed the class difference between the wealthy and the poor.

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Reading this book gave me a better understanding of the Gilded Age by describing an economic boom matched with the corruption of the town and the strikes by labor unions.

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It helped me understand what living in a city in the Gilded Age was actually like. It helped me understand how workers could strike and halt working. It showed the real corruption of America at the time.

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It helped me understand the Gilded Age because it showed the chaos below Chicago. It talked about the low key murders that Holmes committed and also talked about fires that destroyed parts of the city. The fair covered up the evil that happened during its construction.

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It helped me understand the darkness that was going on during the gilded age, and also how america looked good from the outside

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It helped me better understand that it looked really appealing with all the economical development but it was actually greed, corruption, and murder. Burnham represented the gold lining and Holmes represented the true inside of the Gilded Age, violence and greed.

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It gave a good example of the idea of patronage with Harrison and the crazed fan who believed he would be Harrison's successor. It also gave an example of the cover that Gilded the era with the city being so exuberant and fascinating on the outside, but on the inside was a man murdering innocent women in a murder hotel.

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This book really helped me understand the Gilded Age and the context of society during this time period. I understood the surface of the issues during this period, but this book really allowed me to grasp the full extent of the problems during this time period. The juxtaposition of Holmes' and Burnham's story also allowed me to see the origin of the term "gilded" to describe this time period. Everything may look gleaming on the surface, but underneath was scandal and shame.

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It exemplified the contrast between the golden surface and the dark underbelly. The fair, showing the new advances in the world along side the horrors and evil of Homles

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It helped me understand the Gilded Age because it showed the two sides, good and evil. During the fair everything seemed perfect and beautiful but under the surface Holmes was killing people. It shows that when you scratch beneath the surface it is not always good.

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Until reading this book, I had nothing really to put it into context or give me a real life perspective. Reading this, I was able to see everything going on underneath the gleaming surface of the fair, and how it was dirty and difficult to manage, as well as being corrupt. It actually (sadly...) reminded me of current events I hear in the news