"I've been collecting personal heroes since second grade, when I saw a TV broadcast of the 1953 biopic Houdini. I marveled over the magician's penchant for busting out of sealed crates in coffins and, in homage, I spent hours wiggling out of towels I directed my sister to tie tightly around my wrists and ankles. With Houdini, I established a process I would follow with countless other idols: reading their biographies, hanging their posters on my bedroom wall, and trying to figure out what made them tick."
Unfortunately, and inexplicably, the book does not include Houdini on its cover, nor does he get a mention in the jacket blurb. But he is in the book as hero #51.
You can buy Wisconsin Idols: 100 Heroes Who Changed the State, the World, and Me on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
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