Steinmeyer, Jim: Hiding the Elephant ©2003 Jim Steinmeyer, Carroll & Graf Publishers, NY Hardcover, 355 pages ISBN 0-7867-1401-8

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Comments: "How magicians invented the impossible and learned to disappear"

Contents:(Chapters only)

ix List of Illustrations
xiii Cast of Characters
xvii Introduction (Jim Steinmeyer)

1 Chapter 1 Overture
19 Chapter 2. The Ghost
45 Chapter 3 A New Type of Magic
71 Chapter 4 The Formula for Invisibility
91 Chapter 5 The Chief
115 Chapter 6 Two Wizards
137 Chapter 7 Father and Son
159 Chapter 8 Stealing Secrets
177 Chapter 9 Special Effects
197 Chapter 10 Magic Words
219 Chapter 11 Solomon
239 Chapter 12 Houdini
257 Chapter 13 Jennie
275 Chapter 14 Sensations
297 Chapter 15 Keeping Secrets
317 Chapter 16 Encore
333 Acknowledgments and Notes
353 Index