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Author:   John Benedict Buescher
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.770kg
ISBN:  

9781476684659

ISBN 10:   1476684650
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   19 August 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Preface 1 Introduction: Broadcasts from the Borderland 7 The Mentalist Performance 7 * Magicians, Mediums, Magnetists and Astrologers 9 * Wireless Millennium 23 * Human Radios 36 * Transmitting Secrets 42 * The Rise and Fall of Radio Mentalism 45 1. First on the Air 49 Hope Eden 49 * Julius Zancig 63 * Paul Kara 68 2. Front Yard Burial 78 Leona Lamar 78 * Hamid Bey 86 3. Sex Secrets Revealed 93 Signa Serene 93 4. Who Am We? 103 Princess Wahletka 103 * Joveddah De Rajah 113 5. Hypnotized by Radio 119 Vishnu and Zinnia 119 * Charles Harad 124 6. The Long Blindfold Drive 133 Francill 133 7. Persuaded by Shadows 151 Norman Baker 154 * Gayle Norman II 168 * Phenomena 172 8. Spirits of the Air 177 Ethel Duncan 177 * Alma and Zandra 183 9. Across the Border 197 Mel-Roy 197 * Ralph Richards 206 * Marjah 216 10. Bank on Belief 221 Koran and Rose Dawn 221 11. A Family of Troupers 244 Alburtus 244 12. Wizards' War 267 Rajah Raboid 267 * Princess Yvonne and Doc Irving 286 * Bob and Larry Nelson 298 13. What the Audience Will Bear 320 Gene Dennis 320 * Joseph Dunninger 339 Coda 345 Appendix: Some Other Mentalists in Early Radio 351 Chapter Notes 361 Bibliography 405 Index 413

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Includes details of how powerful radio stations along the border helped former vaudeville actors...some of the most popular radio programs in the United States featured radio psychics...author John Buescher dove deep into this history --Texas Standard, The National Daily News Show of Texas

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John Benedict Buescher is the former chief of the Tibetan Broadcast Service of the Voice of America. He has authored articles on radio broadcasting to Tibet and books on the history of Buddhism and on the history of 19-century American Spiritualism. He is a co-director of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals. He lives in Georgetown, Texas.

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