09-01-2014, 03:07 PM
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From the back rooms of New York City's age-old magic societies to
cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to
glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone's quest to
join the ranks of master magicians.
As he navigates this quirky and occasionally hilarious subculture
populated by brilliant eccentrics, Stone pulls back the curtain on a
community shrouded in secrecy, fueled by obsession and brilliance, and
organized around one overriding need: to prove one's worth by deceiving
others.
But his journey is more than a tale of tricks, gigs, and geeks. By
investing some of the lesser-known corners of psychology, neuroscience,
physics, history, and even crime, all through the lens of trickery and
illusion, Fooling Houdini arrives at a host of startling revelations
about how the mind works--and why, sometimes, it doesn't.
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