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This is actually the seminal resource of the magician's magician, Howard Thurston, a guy who set the conventional fro nowadays how phase miracle is conducted and exceeded Houdini in the eyes of showmen and followers. Everybody knows Houdini-but who had been Thurston? Within this rich, vibrant biography of the "best wizard on the planet," recognized historian of period magic Jim Steinmeyer catches the profession and controversies of the question-worker extraordinaire, Howard Thurston. The general publicis fickleness over magicians has quit Thurston today all-but ignored.