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Dai Vernon: A BiographyArtist Magician Muse (Vol. 1: 18941941),Used
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Dai Vernon: the last great undiscovered artist of the 20th century.His medium was magic and with it, Vernon turned the clandestine world of conjuring on its ear with virtuoso sleightofhand and a dogged pursuit for perfection.Born in 1894 in Ottawa, the son of a Canadian civil servant, Vernon moved to New York Manhattan in 1915, and never looked back. Miracles flowed from his fingertips effortlessly. The source of his secrets? The underworld and the gamblers, husters and conmen that roamed backroom dens of iniquity, bunked in jail cells and walked the streets of America. Vernon sought them out, befriended them, and made their work, their covert methods, his. This book, the first indepth examination of Vernon's life, traces the first half of his remarkable journey through Ottawa, Coney Island, Chicago, Manhattan, Kansas City and Colorado Springs and the celebrities Houdini, Billy Rose, and Roosevelt, that Vernon encountered along the way. Dai Vernon: A Biography also details the evolution of magic in the 20th century. From the stages of London and Paris to the back rooms of magic emporiums where secrets were bought and sold, Vernon's life and work escort the reader through vaudeville, Broadway theaters, grand magic spectaculars, New York nightspots and the dawn of television. Here, cornerstones of the craft have finally been laid bare for all to see.
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