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A 5 page research paper essay on Glenn David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil. In this work, Gold adopts a real-life individual, Charles Carter, a famous magician from the 1920s, and offers a fictionalized version of his life, which interweaves events and people from history into the narrative. The writer focuses on how Gold uses the death of President Warren G. Harding in his book. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the American cultural memory. Nevertheless, Carter was a real-life contemporary of Harry Houdini and an admired magician during his time. Novelist Glenn David Gold has adopted this real-life character as
his protagonist in a work of fiction, Carter Beats the Devil, a novel which immerses the reader in history, allowing the reader to absorb the look and "feel" of the
era known as the "Roaring Twenties." Throughout the novel, Gold relates Carter to the most dramatic events and people of that time. He is cohorts with Houdini and the
plot concerns the mystery that surrounded the death of President Warren G. Harding. From the first sentence of the novel, Gold places the reader in the history of
the era by connecting Carter with Hardings death -- "On Friday, August third, 1923, the morning after President Hardings death, reporters followed the widow, the Vice President and Charles Carter,
the magician (Gold 1). While the first two observations are undoubtedly true, the reference to Carter is the fictional "hook" on which the novel is predicated, i.e. the idea that
Harding spent his last full evening alive attending one of Carters shows, passing away inexplicably the next night. While the nation mourns, an investigation begins, which starts with Carter.
At the time that Harding insisted volunteering to be in the performance, Secret Service agent Jack Griffin did not like the idea of the President participating in an
act that used fire, guns, knives, cannons and lions. His opinion was reinforced at the conclusion of the act when Harding was -- apparently -- dismembered, a remarkable, if somewhat
grotesque, illusion. Then the next day, Harding dies suddenly, and, as the news of his death spreads, Carter drops out of sight. President Harding is cremated and Gold pictures his
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