Author: Chauncey JeromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
History of the American clock business for the past sixty years, and life of Chauncey Jerome written by himself. Barnum's connection with the Yankee clock business
Author: Chauncey JeromePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Barnum
Author: Morris Robert WernerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
P.T. Barnum
Author: A. H. SaxonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231056878
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, to attract attention to a show, Phineas Taylor Barnum wrote to a publisher in 1860. "I don't believe in 'duping the public,' but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them." The name P.T. Barnum is virtually synonymous with the fine art of self-advertisement and the apocryphal statement, "There's a sucker born every minute." Nearly a century after his death, Barnum remains one of America's most celebrated figures. In the Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum, A.H. 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. Always the king of showmen, Barnum considered himself a museum man first and was forever on the lookout for "curiosities," whether animate or inanimate. His early career included such outright frauds as Joice Heth, the "161-year-old nurse of George Washington," and the Fejee Mermaid-the desiccated head and torso of a monkey sewn to the body of a fish. Although in later years he projected a more solid, respectable image-managing the irreproachable "legitimate" attraction Jenny Lind, becoming a leading light in the temperance crusade, founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus-much of his daily existence continued to be unabashedly devoted to manipulating public opinion so as to acquire for himself and his enterprises what he delightedly termed "notoriety." His famous autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum, which he regularly augmented during the last quarter century of his life, was itself a masterpiece of self-promotion. "Will you have the kindness to announce that I am writing my life & that fifty-seven different publishers have applied for the chance of publishing it," he wrote to a newspaper editor, adding, "Such is the fact-and if it wasn't, why still it ain't a bad announcement." The Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum captures the magic of this consummate showman's life, truly his own "greatest show on earth."
Struggles and Triumphs
Author: Phineas Taylor BarnumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Circus
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Europe, America, and the Wider World: Volume 2, America and the Wider World
Author: William N. ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521274791
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
These essays give an account of why and how the United States grew rich in the nineteenth century.
Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation)
Author: Astor LibraryHistory of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome
Author: Chauncey JeromeHistory of the American Clock Business for the Past Sixty Years, and Life of Chauncey Jerome Barnum's Connection with the Yankee Clock Business
Author: Jerome ChaunceyPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318728176
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.