Houdini: The Elusive American

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world’s greatest escape artist “Will leave [readers] entertained and astonished, and that’s a kind of magic of its own.”—Jerry Z. Muller, Jewish Review of Books In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, “The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American,” provides ...