Harry Lorayne's autobiography. 94 chapters and many photos tell how a terribly shy poor kid born and raised on the mean streets, the ghetto, of New York City's Lower East Side became "The World's Foremost Memory-training Specialist " and the man thatTimecalled "The Yoda of Memory Training. "

Learn about the man behind the legend, how "stomach cramps " started it all, about his fierce animal instinct for survival and about the "image, the bluster, the brilliance, " the showmanship.

Learn about the "pivot points " that arranged / changed Harry's life, how typhoid fever was a good thing Learn how magic saved his life -. And how a card trick almost got him killed.

Prepare for some very interesting reading about an interesting life ... plenty of laughs, and perhaps a tear or two. Meet some famous people and see them through Harry's eyes.