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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies Biographie |
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Named Person: | P T Barnum; P T Barnum; P T Barnum; Phineas Taylor Barnum; Phineas Taylor Barnum; Phineas T Barnum; P T Barnum; Phineas Taylor Barnum |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
A H Saxon |
ISBN: | 0231056869 9780231056861 0231056877 9780231056878 |
OCLC Number: | 19456005 |
Awards: | Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, 1990 |
Description: | xii, 437 pages, 53 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Illustrations -- Prologue -- 1: Life in progress -- 2: Bethal -- 3: Religion of healthy-mindedness -- 4: Showman Barnum -- 5: Wonders of God's universe -- 6: Of mermaids and the man in miniature -- 7: Universal yankee -- 8: Finer things -- 9: Bridgeport and bankruptcy -- 10: Pro bono publico -- 11: New beginning -- 12: Crowning efforts -- 13: Children's friend and jumbo -- 14: Sun of the amusement world -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Barnum aprocrypha -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index of persons. |
Responsibility: | A.H. Saxon. |
Abstract:
Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes.
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