The story of The Prestige was loosely based on the story of Chung Ling Soo, one of the most famous stage magicians of the 19th century and an utterly shameless race faker (he has a brief cameo in the first act of the movie)https://twitter.com/MarieMyungOkLee/status/1301607543538683910 …
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Thanks! I'll check it out!
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Andrews' book is out of print and hard to come by (at least over here, don't know about the US) but I can recommend The Glorious Deception by Jim Steinmeyer, who's written a lot of excellent books on 19th century magic history.
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