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ISBN: 0300252250 0300230796 9780300252255 9780300230796 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven
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From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world’s greatest escape artist 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 a succinct summary of the Master Mystifier’s life. Born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, Houdini grew up an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the Midwest and became world-famous thanks to talent, industry, and ferocious determination. He concealed as a matter of temperament and professional ethics the secrets of his sensational success. Nobody knows how Houdini performed some of his dazzling, death-defying tricks, and nobody knows, finally, why he felt compelled to punish and imprison himself over and over again. Must a self-liberator also be a self-torturer? Tracking the restless Houdini’s wide-ranging exploits, acclaimed biographer Adam Begley asks the essential question: What kind of man was this?About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.More praise for Jewish Lives: “Excellent.” – New York times “Exemplary.” – Wall St. Journal “Distinguished.” – New Yorker “Superb.” – The Guardian
Magicians --- Escape artists --- Jews --- Houdini, Harry,
ISBN: 0691130647 9780691130644 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,
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The author wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life : a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners.
Prison administration --- Prisoners --- Prisons --- History --- State Prison, Trenton (N.J.) --- Prisonniers --- Administration --- Histoire. --- History. --- Geschichte 1958. --- New Jersey. --- African Americans. --- Bettelheim, Bruno. --- Driscoll, Alfred E. --- East, Norwood. --- Fleisher, Mark. --- Irwin, John. --- Jacobs, James. --- Language and Society (Lewis). --- McKorkle, Lloyd. --- Messinger, Sheldon L. --- National Research Council. --- Ohlin, Lloyd. --- Rhodes, Lorna. --- Strong, S. A. --- Useem, Bert. --- ball busters. --- center men. --- custodians. --- escape artists. --- gorillas. --- guards. --- hipsters. --- incarceration. --- merchants. --- penal labor. --- penology. --- prisons. --- quantification. --- real men. --- social groups. --- sociology. --- swag. --- toughs. --- violence. --- weaklings. --- wolves.
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