Sugar, Bert Randolph & James Randi: Presenting Houdini His Life and Art ©1976 Bert Randolph Sugar, Grosset & Dunlap, NY Hardcover w/dj Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 188 pages ISBN 0-448-12546-3 Hardcover ISBN 0-448-12552-8 Softcover

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Comments: "The world's most mystifying magician, greatest jailbreaking escape artist, debunker of falst spiritualists"

Contents (from book ToC):

9 Foreword by Bert Randolph Sugar
11 Foreword by Randi

15 Part 1 The Bill

16 Act 1 Little Ehrich the Great
27 Act 2 The Houdinis
43 Act 3 Rising Star over Europe
60 Act 4 American Conquest
33 Intermission
94 Act 5 Sorrow Straitjackets and Vanishing Elephants
110 Act 6 Silent Movies and Spirit Mediums
136 Act 7 The Closing
151 Curtain Calls

157 Part II A Peek Behind The Curtain

158 Houdini the Showman
162 The Handcuff King
169 Slander in Germany
171 To Restrain the Murderously Insane
175 “Failure Means a Drowning Death”
179 The Chinese Water Torture Cell

186 Acknowledgments
187 Index