This is a book about a man and his extraordinary life, but it is also about the people who he has inspired in death. He inspired countless people, from all walks of life, to find something magical within themselves. Close to a century after his death, nearly every person in America knows his name from a young age, capturing their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. Say his name and a number of things come to mind. He exhibited his skills in many motion pictures from 1916 to 1923.Award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted fans in an immersive, entertaining and magical work on the illusionist’s impact on American culture - and why his legacy endures to this day. Houdini’s uncanny escape abilities depended partly on his great physical strength and agility and partly on his extraordinary skill at manipulating locks. These demonstrations were typically watched by many thousands of people. In another outdoor exhibition he allowed himself to be suspended, head down, about 75 feet (23 metres) above ground and then freed himself from a straitjacket. The box was submerged from a boat, to which he returned after freeing himself underwater. In a typical act he was shackled with chains and placed in a box that was locked, roped, and weighted. From about 1900 Houdini began to earn an international reputation for his daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, and handcuffs and from various locked containers ranging from milk cans to coffins to prison cells. In 1894 he was married to Wilhelmina Rahner, who thereafter as Beatrice Houdini served as his stage assistant. He became a trapeze performer in circuses at an early age, and, after settling in New York City in 1882, he performed in vaudeville shows there without much success. Houdini was the son of a rabbi who emigrated from Hungary to the United States and settled in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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