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Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by Po Bronson
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Twelve
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Chapters 1, 2, and 4 originally appeared in New York
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magazine for permission to include these chapters in edited and expanded form.
First eBook Edition: September 2009
ISBN 978-0-446-56332-1
CONTENTS
Copyright
Also By Po Bronson
Preface
Introduction
1: The Inverse Power of Praise
2: The Lost Hour
3: Why White Parents Don’t Talk About Race
4: Why Kids Lie
5: The Search for Intelligent Life in Kindergarten
6: The Sibling Effect
7: The Science of Teen Rebellion
8: Can Self-Control Be Taught?
9: Plays Well With Others
10: Why Hannah Talks and Alyssa Doesn’t
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Sources and References
About the Authors
About Twelve
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Bombardiers
PREFACE
Cary Grant is at the door.
 
D
uring the late 1960s, visitors to the Magic Castle—a private nightclub in Hollywood, California, run by professional magicians—were
often delighted to see that the club had hired a Cary Grant look-alike as its doorman. As they’d step up to the portico, the
door would be swung open by a dashing man in an impeccably tailored suit. “Welcome to the Castle,” he charmed, seeming to
enjoy his doppelgänger status. Once the guests were through the lobby, they would titter over just how much the doorman resembled
the iconic actor. The nightclub is mere yards from the Chinese Theatre and the Walk of Fame. To have the best Cary Grant impersonator
in the world holding the door for you was the perfect embodiment of the magic of Hollywood in all its forms.
However, the doorman pretending to be Cary Grant wasn’t an impostor after all. It was, in fact, the real Cary Grant.
Grant, a charter member of the Castle, had been intrigued by magic since he was a kid. Part of the Castle’s appe ............

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