Author: Katharine ClugstonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Barnum Returns, Or, The New American Museum
Author: Katharine ClugstonBarnum Returns
Author: Katharine ClugstonPublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Press Book on Barnum Returns, Or, The New American Museum
Author: Katharine ClugstonPublisher:
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Category : Vaudeville
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Barnum Returns, Or, The New American Museum
Author: Katharine ClugstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Barnum Returns
Author: Katharine ClugstonPublisher:
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Category : Vaudeville
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Barnum's American Museum, Corner of Broadway and Ann-Street
Author: Phineas Taylor BarnumPublisher:
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Barnum
Author: Robert WilsonPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501118714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P.T. Barnum still inspires wonder. Robert Wilson’s vivid new biography captures the full genius, infamy, and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself. He learned as a young man how to wow crowds, and built a fortune that placed him among the first millionaires in the United States. He also suffered tragedy, bankruptcy, and fires that destroyed his life’s work, yet willed himself to recover and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy throughout his life—yet he was also a man of strong convictions, guided in his work not by a desire to deceive, but an eagerness to thrill and bring joy to his audiences. He almost certainly never uttered the infamous line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” instead taking pride in giving crowds their money’s worth and more. Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, tells a gripping story in Barnum, one that’s imbued with the same buoyant spirit as the man himself. In this “engaging, insightful, and richly researched new biography” (New York Journal of Books), Wilson adeptly makes the case for P.T. Barnum’s place among the icons of American history, as a figure who represented, and indeed created, a distinctly American sense of optimism, industriousness, humor, and relentless energy.
Barnum's New American Museum
Author: Phineas Taylor BarnumPublisher:
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Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Struggles and Triumphs
Author: Phineas Taylor BarnumPublisher:
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Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
E Pluribus Barnum
Author: Bluford AdamsPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816626311
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective. Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century, and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence us today. Beginning with a discussion of Barnum's early shows, Adams demonstrates the dynamic interplay between Barnum's increasingly "respectable" aspirations for his entertainments and his active cultivation of middle-class sensibilities in his audiences. In his discussion of the 1850-51 concert tour of the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind, Adams explores the role played by women's rights and class issues in Barnum's management of these concerts. Barnum's American Museum and the "moral dramas" presented in its theater are examined, as well as the later circuses. Adams relates the rise of Barnum to the emergence of a new U.S. society, one riven by conflicts over slavery, feminism, immigration, and capitalism, and considers his career as a crucial moment in the on-going struggle over the politics of U.S. commercial entertainments.