Houdini, Tarzan, and the entire Ma...

Houdini, Tarzan, and the entire Man: The White Male dead body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. John F Kasson. recent York: Hill & Wang, 2001 256 pp $2600

Houdini, Harry

Houdini's Box: The Art of Escape. Adam Phillips. fresh York: Pantheon, 2001. 177 pp $2200

"Writhing our of a straitjacket while suspended upside down from an office building, Kasson writes in the entertaining 'Houdini, Tarzan, and the finished Man,' Houdini demonstrated that the rugg individual could beat the singles in the 'rising skyscraper civilization.' Stripped naked, bowed down