 | The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Norman Bolotin
Buy new: $13.10 / Used from: $10.00 This is my favorite book about the fair. Photo-laden and with just enough informative text to understand what you're looking at, it's the best alternative to a time machine and an entrance ticket.
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 | EXPO - Magic of the White City DVD
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $11.98 A perspective of the size of the fair, its layout and contents. Photos I haven't seen in books. Wish they had a huge budget and would've created some computer reconstructions/animations.
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 | Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (The American Ways Series) by Robert Muccigrosso
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $1.49 An excellent and interesting book that seems to hold to an optimistic tone while not neglecting the issues of the time.
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 | The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series)
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.77 Wonderful collection of pictures and some interesting text. Coupled with its low price it's a can't-miss.
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 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.95 Obligatory fair reading. Got a little slow/boring at times but was well worth reading.
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 | Fair America: World's Fairs in the United States by Robert W. Rydell
Buy new: $23.96 / Used from: $7.54 Not just about the 1893 fair, this book tells some bitter truth of the backgrounds of fairs. Good book though.
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