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    Oct 09, 2019 4 minutes
    REVIEWS BY JEFF CENTENERA

    THE MEN ON MAGIC CARPETS

    SEARCHING FOR THE SUPERHUMAN SPORTS STAR BY ED HAWKINS, BLOOMSBURY, $29.99

    If superheroes (or supervillains) were real, wouldn’t some of them give up their costumed caper and turn their powers to sport stardom? Or think about it from another angle – as sports fans, we already believe to a large degree that the feats of our athletic icons border on superhuman, don’t we?

    The Men On delves into the true history of the effort to harness the paranormal in the sporting realm. Think of it as the athletic equivalent of the Jon Ronson book and subsequent film adaptation that recounted the CIA’s project to create psychic super-soldiers; a response to the Soviet Union’s plans to do the same.

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