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The Last Greatest Magician in the World : Howard Thurston Versus Houdini and the Battles of the American Wizards by Jim Steinmeyer (2011, Hardcover)

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Here is the seminal biography of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician in the world," celebrated historian of stage magic Jim Steinmeyer captures the career and controversies of the wonder-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The public's fickleness over magicians has left Thurston all but forgotten today. Yet Steinmeyer shows how his story is one of the most remarkable in show business. During his life, from 1869 to 1936, Thurston successfully navigated the most dramatic changes in entertainment-from street performances to sideshows to wagon tours through America's still-wild West to stage magic amid the glitter of grand theaters. Thurston became one of America's most renowned vaudeville stars, boldly performing an act with just a handful of playing cards, and then had the foresight to leave vaudeville, expanding his show into an extravaganza with more than forty tons of apparatusand costumes. His touring production was an American institution for nearly thirty years, and Thurston earned a brand name equal to Ziegfeld or Ringling Brothers. Steinmeyer explores the stage and psychological rivalry between Thurston and Houdini during the first decades of the twentieth century- a contest that Thurston won. He won with a bigger show, a more successful reputation, and the title of America's greatest magician. In The Last Greatest Magician in the World , Thurston's magic show is revealed as the one that animates our collective memories.

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1585428450
ISBN-13
9781585428458
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Last Greatest Magician in the World : Howard Thurston Versus Houdini and the Battles of the American Wizards
Author
Jim Steinmeyer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Magick Studies, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Educators
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Body, Mind & Spirit
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Gv1545.T5s74 2011
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
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"There is no greater expert on the history of stage magicians than Jim Steinmeyer. His deep knowledge of the subject, combined with a remarkable mastery of magical know-how, makes this book a smart, fantastic read. I can''t recommend it enough!" -Neil Patrick Harris "Jim Steinmeyer knows the outside-in world of magic from the inside; he is a celebrated ''invisible man'' - inventor, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter-century... Steinmeyer writes about events a century ago as vividly as if he had been there; and in a sense, he has been... No author has ever better conveyed the way the love of conjuring consumes a magician''s life with magic''s joys, terrors and longings." -Teller (of Penn and Teller), The New York Times Book Review, "There is no greater expert on the history of stage magicians than Jim Steinmeyer. His deep knowledge of the subject, combined with a remarkable mastery of magical know-how, makes this book a smart, fantastic read. I can't recommend it enough!" -Neil Patrick Harris "Jim Steinmeyer knows the outside-in world of magic from the inside; he is a celebrated 'invisible man' - inventor, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter-century... Steinmeyer writes about events a century ago as vividly as if he had been there; and in a sense, he has been... No author has ever better conveyed the way the love of conjuring consumes a magician's life with magic's joys, terrors and longings." -Teller (of Penn and Teller), The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-035384
Dewey Decimal
793.8092/2 B
Dewey Edition
22

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