Fleischman organizes this rags-to-riches tale around Houdini’s shameless vanity that supported his “megaphone self-promotion” of his self-made legend: sharing that Houdini doctored facts and photographs. Escape! captures readers with its flamboyant vocabulary, humor, insider understanding, wonderful photographs with excellent captions and a clearly stated theme which shapes the details of an exciting life. Author Sid Fleischman uses the same technique to stand out in the crowded field of Houdini biographies.

He also ran, swam and cycled to strengthen his body.Harry Houdini’s showmanship made him a standout among magicians. He spent his free time in libraries, reading books about magic tricks. He worked as a shoeshine boy, a newspaper delivery boy and in a tie factory. He started working as a young man to help his family in financial difficulties. His actual birth date was revealed in 1972 by The Houdini Birth Research Committee’s Report. Houdini later called this town his birthplace, where he claims to have been born on 6 April 1874. His family emigrated to the United States in 1878, when Erik Weisz was only four years old. Some say he tried to deny this, since after his rise to fame he himself spread the rumors that he was born in the United States of America. Harry Houdini, born Erik Weisz, was born on 24 March 1874 in Budapest, in the 7th district.

The news portal hirado.hu is remembering Hungary’s famous son on the anniversary of his birth. Handcuffs, prison cells, water-filled barrels, boxes driven out with nails, the greatest escape artist of all time had no problem breaking free from a Chinese water torture chamber either.

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