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A celebration of the life of P. T. Barnum chronicles his achievements as a history-making showman; details his work with Jenny Lind, Tom Thumb, and Jumbo; and identifies his impact on American popular culture. 60,000 first printing. Tour.
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arliest practitioners of "the show business, " P.T. Barnum built his reputation largely on the exoticism of others. A man of complex motives, Barnum possessed a unique genius and his influence on popular culture is evident to this day. Barnum will be a three-hour Discovery Channel special airing in October. Illustrations, 260 in color.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0679435743
- ISBN 13 9780679435747
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. If Abraham Lincoln was the great moral force of his age, Phineas Taylor Barnum was its great provider of joy. As one of the earliest practitioners of "the show business," Barnum dedicated his long career to alleviating the severe and drudging practicalness he considered the chief defect of American civilization. His remedy? A prodigious swarm of divas, minstrels, circuses, museums of curiosities, beauty pageants, sideshows, fat-baby and poultry contests - whatever it took to entertain his fellow citizens while making him one of his countrys first millionaires.With P.T. Barnum: Americas Greatest Showman, the Messrs Kunhardt rediscover the genius and vision of an unmatched impresario and entrepreneur. In vivid words and spellbinding pictures (more than 500 photographs, engravings, and color lithographs from 41 different archives), we meet a man of complex motives, a master of merchandise, an inveterate self-promoter often reviled for his opportunism. We meet the man who did NOT say "Theres a sucker born every minute"; whose best friends were clergymen; whose autobiography sold more than a million copies; who took a public leap through a flaming hoop to prove to the ASPCA that his performing horses were in no danger; who (allegedly) plotted with Samuel Clemens to lease a comets tail to take a million passengers on a guided tour of outer space. We meet the man who built his reputation - and his fortune - largely on the exoticism of others, but whose crowning moment as a member of the Connecticut state legislature came in a speech in favor of the constitutional amendment to abolish slavery: "A human soul is not to be trifled with. It may inhabit the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab or a Hotentot - it is still an immortal spirit!"There is no denying Barnums abiding influence, more than a century after his death, on our popular culture. For better AND for worse, we owe Americas irrepressible infatuation with show biz largely to him. Seller Inventory # DADAX0679435743
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