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Truevine

Author : Beth Macy
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316337560
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Truevine written by Beth Macy and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world and change their lives forever. Captured into the circus, the Muse brothers performed for royalty at Buckingham Palace and headlined over a dozen sold-out shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. They were global superstars in a pre-broadcast era. But the very root of their success was in the color of their skin and in the outrageous caricatures they were forced to assume: supposed cannibals, sheep-headed freaks, even "Ambassadors from Mars." Back home, their mother never accepted that they were "gone" and spent 28 years trying to get them back. Through hundreds of interviews and decades of research, Beth Macy expertly explores a central and difficult question: Where were the brothers better off? On the world stage as stars or in poverty at home? Truevine is a compelling narrative rich in historical detail and rife with implications to race relations today.

Life Story of the Ringling Brothers

Author : Alfred T Ringling
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344278167
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Life Story of the Ringling Brothers written by Alfred T Ringling and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Circus

Author : Linda Granfield
Publisher : Dk Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780789426611
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Circus written by Linda Granfield and published by Dk Pub. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of circuses from the time of ancient Egypt and Greece through their evolution in eighteenth-century Europe to the spectacles created by P.T. Barnum and other modern-day showmen.

The Greatest Shows on Earth

Author : Linda Simon
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780233981
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The Greatest Shows on Earth written by Linda Simon and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. “Step right up!” and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth—the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossible—a place of myth and romance, of reinvention, rebirth, second acts, and new identities. Asking why we long to soar on flying trapezes, ride bareback on spangled horses, and parade through the streets in costumes of glitter and gold, this captivating book illuminates the history of the circus and the claim it has on the imaginations of artists, writers, and people around the world. Traveling back to the circus’s early days, Linda Simon takes us to eighteenth-century hippodromes in Great Britain and intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted with aerialists and clowns. She introduces us to P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, and the enterprising Ringling Brothers and reveals how they created the golden age of American circuses. Moving forward to the whimsical Circus Oz in Australia and to New York City’s Big Apple Circus and the grand spectacle of Cirque du Soleil, she shows how the circus has transformed in recent years. At the center of the story are the people—trick riders and tightrope walkers, sword swallowers and animal trainers, contortionists and clowns—that created the sensational, raucous, and sometimes titillating world of the circus.

Long Road to the Circus

Author : Betsy Bird
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0593304004
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Long Road to the Circus written by Betsy Bird and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES The story of a girl who rides an ostrich straight to her dreams from the award-winning writer and librarian Betsy Bird, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist David Small. "[A] charming, wacky novel." —The New York Times Twelve-year-old Suzy Bowles is tired of summers filled with chores on her family farm in Burr Oak, Michigan, and desperate to see the world. When her wayward uncle moves back home to the farm, only to skip his chores every morning for mysterious reasons, Suzy decides to find out what he's up to once and for all. And that's when she meets legendary former circus queen Madame Marantette and her ostriches. Before long, Suzy finds herself caught-up in the fast-paced, hilarious world of ostrich riding, a rollicking adventure that just might be her ticket out of Burr Oak. “Beautifully told by one of our best librarians.” —Jon Scieszka, First National Ambassador of Young People’s Literature

The Circus Age

Author : Janet M. Davis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861499
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Circus Age written by Janet M. Davis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and provocative book, Janet Davis links the flowering of the early-twentieth-century American railroad circus to such broader historical developments as the rise of big business, the breakdown of separate spheres for men and women, and the genesis of the United States' overseas empire. In the process, she casts the circus as a powerful force in consolidating the nation's identity as a modern industrial society and world power. Davis explores the multiple "shows" that took place under the big top, from scripted performances to exhibitions of laborers assembling and tearing down tents to impromptu spectacles of audiences brawling, acrobats falling, and animals rampaging. Turning Victorian notions of gender, race, and nationhood topsy-turvy, the circus brought its vision of a rapidly changing world to spectators--rural as well as urban--across the nation. Even today, Davis contends, the influence of the circus continues to resonate in popular representations of gender, race, and the wider world.

The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys

Author : Olive Woolley Burt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys written by Olive Woolley Burt and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the boyhood of the five brothers who were founders of a great circus.

Ballet of the Elephants

Author : Leda Schubert
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781596430754
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Ballet of the Elephants written by Leda Schubert and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the circus and the ballet of fifty elephants and dancers choreographed by George Ballanchine in 1942.

Life Story of the Ringling Brothers

Author : Alfred Ringling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Story of the Ringling Brothers written by Alfred Ringling and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the humblest of beginnings the Ringling Brothers built and became equal owners of the greatest amusement enterprise in the world's history. The Ringling brothers were seven American siblings of small-town Wisconsin who transformed their small touring company of performers into one of America's largest circuses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1900 Alfred "Alf" Theodore Ringling (1861-1919) published the book "Life Story of the Ringling Brothers". There is no more striking example of a well-defined ambition reaching out toward a distinctive goal, and attaining it regardless of seemingly insurmountable obstacles and difficulties, than in the story of the Ringling brothers. To be sure, the idea of five boys saying to each other, "We want a circus," wasn't much to create more than a laugh among their playfellows; but for them to determine to have a circus, and the biggest and finest in the world, and then to start getting it, and finish by having it, makes an altogether different story of the five little boys' dreams. There wasn't much in the "wanting to have," but there was a great deal in the "getting." Of course, all this didn't happen- in an hour. There is a great lapse of years between the time when the Ringling boys said, "We want a circus," and the day when the Ringling men could say, "We have a circus," and it is this intervening time between the desire and the realization with which this story deals. It is a wonderful story to write-an adventure in real life, a page in the history of America's great men that teems with lessons of patience, perseverance, and honest effort. It is Caesarian, Napoleonic, Bismarckian in effort, and in accomplishment more than can be said of Alexander. The latter conquered the world, but the Ringling brothers pleased it. Alexander, with all his conquests, could not do this. History records no greater trials than marked the beginning of the career of these great circus men, nor does history record a greater triumph than has rewarded them for their labor.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1959 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)

Sandy's Circus

Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0670062685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Sandy's Circus written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, Alexander ?Sandy? Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences. This is the story of Sandy?s Circus, as told by Tanya Lee Stone with Boris Kulikov?s spectacular and innovative illustrations. Calder?s original circus is on permanent display at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

A Very Young Circus Flyer

Author : Jill Krementz
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Very Young Circus Flyer written by Jill Krementz and published by Yearling. This book was released on 1987 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nine-year-old trapeze artist tells about his life with a circus.

Circus Museum

Author : Deborah W. Walk
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781857598926
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Circus Museum written by Deborah W. Walk and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the collected works of this unique museum

Peep at the Circus

Author : McLoughlin McLoughlin Brothers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781429080859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Peep at the Circus written by McLoughlin McLoughlin Brothers and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PEEP AT THE CIRCUS was originally published in 1887 by McLoughlin Brothers, New York, New York.

The Circus Fire

Author : Stewart O'Nan
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307482987
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Circus Fire written by Stewart O'Nan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism—the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives. Steward O'Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O'Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.

Peru

Author : Kreig A. Adkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738560717
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Peru written by Kreig A. Adkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1884, Ben Wallace, the owner of the local livery, opened the season of his new circus in Peru and billed it as Wallace and Companys Great Worlds Menagerie and International Circus. It was an instant success and soon grew to be one of the largest and most renowned circuses in American history. Over the next 50 years, many circuses found a home in Peru. Under the direction of the American Circus Corporation, an industry was created in Peru that employed as many as 4,500 people. Circuses like the Hagenbeck-Wallace, John Robinson, and Sells-Floto/Buffalo Bills Wild West Show departed Peru by rail each spring, along with some of the best acts from around the world, including Terrell the Lion King Jacobs; the worlds favorite clown, Emmett Kelly; and animal trainer Clyde Beatty, who played himself in 12 Hollywood movies. In 1929, Ringling Brothers purchased the American Circus Corporation. As the country sank into the Depression, fewer circuses left Peru each season. In 1941, Ringling Brothers closed its winter quarters in Peru, ending an era.

Heckedy Peg

Author : Audrey Wood
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152336790
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Heckedy Peg written by Audrey Wood and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.