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The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
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many of his effects were willed to his brother, and almost all of his secrets are known today.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
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Harry Kellar was also badly fooled when he saw it in the summer of 1901. He was America's greatest magician, a rough-and-tumble showman. He'd been born Heinrich Keller in 1848 in Erie, Pennsylvania. As a boy, Harry worked as a drugstore clerk, a newsboy, and custodian for the Erie Railroad before he ended up in Buffalo, New York and responded to a
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His specialty was convincing each person that they had witnessed a near catastrophe.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
He admired Kellar but felt he was "the last of the old school magicians," later writing that in Kellar's show, "mystery came first with him; entertainment was not considered."