Name: This Week In History: Houdini
Duration: 61
Description: Harry Houdini is still known today as history's most famous magician, but there was a time when his act needed to be rescued from the dead.

Harry Houdini is still known today as history's most famous magician, but there was a time when his act needed to be rescued from the dead.

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Harry Houdini is still known today as history&#8217;s most famous magician, but there was a time when his act needed to be rescued from the dead.

This Week In History: Houdini

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<p>Though the 19th century saw the rise of populism, the labor movement and Jacksonian democracy, it also ushered in the Gilded Age, when men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and J. P. Morgan wielded vast control over politics and business.</p>


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