Erik Larson


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Thunderstruck
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
No One Goes Alone
The Naked Consumer: How Our Private Lives Become Public Commodities
Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices
Guilty Not Guilty
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Erik Larson
To do our work, we all have to read a mass of papers. While energy has to be spent in looking for the essential points. I ask my colleagues and their staffs to see to it that their reports are shorter.
Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson
I went to Harvard for examination with two men not as well prepared as I. Both passed easily, and I flunked, having sat through two or three examinations without being able to write a word." Burnham said. Larson wrote, "The same happened at Yale, Both schools turned him down. He never forgot it. ...more
Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City

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