1. Fleischman devotes the early part of his autobiography to the process by which he became a magician. Have the more noted magicians of our time, David Copperfield, for example, undergone similar training? Are they different in any way from the ones who were on the vaudeville circuit in the 1920s and 1930s?
2. Compare Fleischman's tall stories to those of Mark Twain and other writers of the nineteenth century. Is he their equal in the creation of these stories?
3. Bill Goldfarb of John Wayne's production company, Batjac, tells Fleischman: "You.....
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