Foreword

Introduction

David Copperfield: The All-Time Greatest Magician

Copperfield’s Museum: Preserving Magic History

More Facts About David Copperfield

The Secrets Behind Project Magic

The Impossible Knot

The Jumping Rubber Band

The Challenge of the Jumping Rubber Band

Linking Paper Clips

Robert Houdin: The Father of Modern Magic

Tip Over Trunk

Broomstick Suspension

The Indian Rope Trick

Howard Thurston: Magic Reborn

Levitation

Flash Production

Black Art Magic

Harry Kellar: Master Magician

Dollhouse Illusion

Circle, Square, and Square, Circle

S-Suspension

Harry Houdini: The Escape Artist

Substitution Trunk

Walking Through a Brick Wall

The Pea Shell Game

Houdini’s Water Torture Cell

Hardeen: Brother of Houdini

Chair Suspension

Women Sawing in Half

Walter Gibson: The Writer

Linking Rings

Sword Cabinet

All the Secrets of Magic Revealed

Mark Wilson: The New Magician

Sword Suspension

Needle Through Balloon

Doug Henning: The Magic of the Seventies

Zigzag

Mismatch Woman

Water Jet Suspension

Floating Ball

Kreskin: The Mind Reader

Bag of Money

Lock and Key

Find the Paycheck

ESP and Social Security Numbers

Kardeen: The Next Generation

Straitjacket Escape

Woman to Tiger

Siegfried and Roy: Doing the Impossible

Removing the Middle

Tiger to Assistant

The Final Word

Index