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Episode #1 : Why saw a woman in half? What is the connection between a deck of cards & the calendar. Remote card location.

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Episode #3:The first aircraft pilot down under was a magician and a live random number challenge via phone.

Episode #4: Bar stunts, Alice Cooper as a magician and magic used in pop concerts.

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Sunday
Oct242010

STEINMEYER'S LONG ANTICIPATED THURSTON BOOK APPEARS ON AMAZON

Jim Steinmeyer's long awaited biography on Howard Thurston "The Last Greatest Magician in The World" is scheduled for release in February of next year and has made its appearance on Amazon and is now available for pre-order!

This 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.

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