The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Magic & Illusion Recommended by The New York

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and faced skeptics in their own nations—yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century

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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Magic & Illusion Recommended by The New YorkWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word. In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery,