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Listening time over 9 hours. The author, Ben Robinsion, reads the entire book. Additionally he also reads ten letters to and from Mulholland previously unpublished and not part of the book or ebook. Here is the first half of the first chapter: <p><audio controls="controls"><source src="https://www.lybrary.com/images/the_magician_overture.mp3" />Your browser does not support the audio tag.</audio></p> [If the embedded player should not properly work in your browser you can also download the MP3 <a href="https://www.lybrary.com/images/the_magician_overture.mp3" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a>.] <hr class="w30 ac"> <blockquote class=quote> "John Mulholland is surely one of the most fascinating personalities in magic history. For his work to advance conjuring as a recognized art, he deserves tremendous respect, and no serious student of magic will want to skip this book." - Michael Claxton, <i>Magic Magazine</i>, Feb 2009. <p> "I can even imagine him up in heaven huddling with <a href="milbourne-christopher-m-43.html">Christopher</a>, <a href="harry-houdini-m-16.html">Houdini</a>, <a href="harry-blackstone-m-35.html">Blackstone</a> and <a href="howard-thurston-m-10.html">Thurston</a> as they discuss your biography. Their applause is loud enough to be heard on planet Earth." - Maurine Brooks Christopher <p> "I am an avid reader of books, all types of books, but not since <i>Harry Potter</i> or <i>The Da Vinci Code</i> have I been so engrossed in a book that I could not put it down. A new book called <i>The MagiCIAn: John Mulholland's Secret Life</i> by Ben Robinson was just released and I have to tell you, it's one of the best books on a magician's life I have ever read. This is so good I even gave it to my wife to read, and she could not put it down. (I should have bought two copies!)." - <a href="paul-romhany-m-255.html">Paul Romhany</a> (For Paul's full review go <a href="https://www.lybrary.com/https://www.lybrary.com/-pri-2132.html?reviews_id=340">here</a>.) </blockquote> <i>THE MAGICIAN: John Mulholland's Secret Life</i> is drawn from never-before-seen documents. It will appeal to readers of theatre, magic and war history. <p> It comes with a foreword by the legendary Dr. John N. Booth, who writes: <blockquote class=quote> "Ben Robinson has thoughtfully and beautifully synthesized the pile of personal notes and documents which is the legacy passed from John Mulholland to Milbourne Christopher, to Maurine Christopher and finally to author Robinson. No better foundation exists for learning what made John Mulholland into magic's most influential voice in the 20th century. This book tells that story." </blockquote> <a href="john-mulholland-m-88.html">John Mulholland</a> (1898-1970) edited the magician's magazine <a href="the-sphinx-p-80.html"><i>The Sphinx</i></a> for 23 years, ending the publication to be consultant to the newly born CIA in 1953. His assignments included working with billionaires and inventors, cracking codes and delving into the clandestine world of ESP research, LSD use and the secret MK-ULTRA world headed by the notorious Dr. Sidney Gottlieb. <p> During this period, CIA Dr. Frank Olson died the day after Thanksgiving, 1953. This book examines Mulholland's role during this dramatic period in the CIA's history and goes against the current trend of accusing Mulholland as having a role in Olson's fatal fall from a hotel window. <p> John Mulholland was "The World's Master Magician." He performed in forty-two countries, authored ten books and performed at the Roosevelt White House eight times. His 90-minute stage show was carried in two suitcases and included impersonations of authentic Hindu and Chinese mysteries. Theatre critics spoke about him as they did a great actor. <p> John Mulholland was an intellectual patriot who provided an essential component of counter espionage during the Cold War's Red Scare. <p> <i>THE MAGICIAN: John Mulholland's Secret Life</i> is the first biography of the man Dr. John N. Booth defines in his Foreword as "the most influential voice of the art of magic in the 20th century." <p class=ac> <img src="images/the_magician_spy_museum.jpg" alt="At the Spy Museum" title="At the Spy Museum" width="399" height="310" loading=lazy style="max-width:399px !important" class=shrink><br> In the foreground Ben Robinson is seen at the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. on October 20, 2009. In the background, H. Keith Melton, one of the authors of the new CIA release of John Mulholland's writing for the Agency from the 50's. Melton and Robert Wallace co-authored the introduction to Mulholland's writing, renamed <i>The Official C.I.A. Manual of Trickery and Deception</i>. 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