Review by geenyas - Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count

A review by geenyas
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes

4.0

Comparisons to Erik Larson's book "Devil in the White City"

about the Chicago World's Fair are inevitable. To my mind,

"Eiffel's Tower" is much more readable and entertaining,

without being any less didactic. Jonnes does an excellent

job weaving together the threads of science and industry,

art and society, politics and popular culture in Belle Epoque

Paris by following select historical personages and their

associations with the Fair. "Vive Guillaume Buffalo!"

A review by geenyas Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes

A review by geenyas
Eiffel's Tower and the World's Fair: Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count by Jill Jonnes