David Copperfield s History of Magic Review: Treasury of Illusions – WSJ

Magic matters, says David Copperfield. It transports people into a world in which the impossible appears possible. It was magic, after all, that transported him David Seth Kotkin, born 65 years ago in Metuchen, N.J. from the middle-class home of a haberdasher into a wildly successful year-round residency at the Las Vegas MGM Grand. No, he didn t sell his soul to the devil to achieve his renown. He simply gave all of his time and talent, from the age of 8, to the art and craft of illusion the recondite stage world of card tricks and sleight of hand, jaw-dropping escapes and levitating ladies of which he is perhaps today s most famous and highly paid practitioner.

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And there’s still a lot of magical thinking going around.