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There's a must read post today over at
Carnegie: Magic Detective about Houdini and President Abraham Lincoln. Dean contends that Lincoln, not Robert-Houdin, was Houdini's true boyhood hero (and I concur).
Click on the headline to read the interesting history of the Master Mystifier and the Great Emancipator at
Magic Detective.
I wonder who got his Lincoln collection after he died?
ReplyDeleteVery good link - I can't post on Dean's blog for whatever reason.