Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

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Summary: Hiding The Elephant
Review: A great book by a great author. Gives insight into magicians of the past and their illusions. Highly recommended for people who love magic. I enjoyed reading this book.

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Summary: best illusion of science book ever:)
Review: its everything you wanted to know on illusions even hard work behinde the scences and new ways of angles of science cool ideas and ps. like i allways say jim steinmeryer is the clever person who invented soul passage and concived the best way of illusionist david copperfields staute of libertyvanish and reappperance and johng gohn illusion builder built it. hey andre kole is glad dc ging to make the real moon vanish cause anddre kole himself has thought of more then 7 ways to acomplish this hes clorabarting with dc to figure oiut the best way to make the real moon vanish. jim stein meyer knows his stuff real well even on animal plane on animal magic with lance burton jim steynmeyer let everyone know how illusions are done even lance burton and on anmal planets gorrla magic lost of magicians showed how to do illusions even lance burton :) that VAL masked magiciabn AND TILL MAN AND franz HARRY shows how illusions are done even on how they do thatand challenge to the secret game show AND abc 2 MASKED magicians and fox 2 new masked magicians and lance burton NBC UNVEALED on illusions AND HERBERT L BECKER AND MANY nbc secrets of mind readin pro magicians shows how its done and even CBS MASKED MAGICIAN IN 1980S SHOWED HOW TO DO COOL ILLUSIONS even cool magician david copperfield on his new TV hotel COMERCAIL

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Summary: Great Stories, Well Told
Review: Jim Steinmeyer loves magic. Better yet, he knows more about the history of magic than just about anybody. Best of all, Steinmeyer is a superb writer, telling these great stories with a delightful, self-effacing wit. It pretends to be about magic, but it's really a fascinating rogue's gallery of flim-flam artists, geniuses, charlatans and showmen -- the great (and, in the case of Houdini, not-so-great) magical artistes of the19th and 20th centuries. Reading this book is pure pleasure. Good job.