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It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be, But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
PT Barnum’s number-one rule was “Get Attention.”
Jesse Cole • Fans First
We are our own auditors.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
It was card tricks that made Howard Thurston famous. He performed his act at Tony Pastor's theatre in New York, and in 1900 he opened at the Palace Theatre in London, billed as "The King of Cards" or "The World's Premier Card Manipulator."
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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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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