The Electrifying Fall of Rainbow City: Spectacle and Assassination at the 1901 World's Fair - Softcover

Wonderfully informative, evocative and illuminating.

Required reading.

Lively.--Randy Dotinga

Engrossing.

Creighton shines.

A propulsive, edge-of-your-seat ride.--Lauren Belfer, author of And After the Fire

Utterly electrifying prose.--Martha Hodes, author of Mourning Lincoln

A delightful read.

An extraordinary portrait of the event... great storytelling and painterly in its color and detail.--Mark Goldman, author of High Hopes and City on the Edge

I was born in Buffalo, and the Pan-American Exposition was very much a part of my family's lore. Margaret Creighton's work is a great pleasure to read because of its wealth of incident and detail and the author's abiding fondness for the spirit and optimism that pervaded so much of the main event. Furthermore, she ends her work with an equally compelling look at Buffalo today, as the gallant old city attempts to pull itself up and reassert its ancient energy.--A. R. Gurney, playwright and novelist

The Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, dazzled with its new rainbow-colored electric lights. It showcased an array of wonders, like daredevils attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or the “Animal King” putting the smallest woman in the world and also terrifying animals on display. But the thrill-seeking spectators little suspected that an assassin walked the fairgrounds, waiting for President William McKinley to arrive. In Margaret Creighton’s hands, the result is “a persuasive case that the fair was a microcosm of some momentous facets of the United States, good and bad, at the onset of the American Century” (Howard Schneider, Wall Street Journal).