The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini Audiobook (Free)

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of dedicated fans within an immersive, entertaining, and magical focus on the illusionist’s impact on American culture—and just why his legacy endures even today.

Harry Houdini. State his name and several things one thinks of. Escapes. Illusions. Magic. Stores. Safes. Live burials. Near a century after his death, just about any person in the us understands his name from a age, about THE LIFE SPAN and Afterlife of Harry Houdini recording their imaginations with his death-defying stunts and daring acts. He inspired countless people, from all walks of lifestyle, to discover something marvelous within themselves.

That is a book about a man and his extraordinary life, but it is also about the people who he has inspired in death. As Joe Posnanski delves in to the deepest corners of Houdini-land, visiting museums (one possessed by David Copperfield), destinations, and personal archives, he encounters a cast of memorable and fascinating characters: a female who runs abroad to run after her dream of becoming a magician; an Italian who revives Houdini’s most well-known illusion every night; a performer at the Magic Castle in LA who calls himself Houdini’s Ghost; a son in Australia who, 1 day, sees an old poster and seems his life change; and a man in LA whose sole objective is life provides been to keep the star’s name alive.

Both a personal obsession and an odyssey of discovery, Posnanski draws inspiration from his lifelong passion for and obsession with magic, blending biography, memoir, and first-person reporting to examine Harry Houdini’s life and legacy. This is the ultimate journey to uncover why this magic man endures, and what he still must teach the globe about wonder.