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Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
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Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The life of P.T. Barnum, by himself. Author's ed written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
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Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Life of P. T. Barnum written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phineas Taylor BARNUM
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Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Life of P. T. Barnum, written by himself. Author's edition. With illustrations and a portrait written by Phineas Taylor BARNUM and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. H. Saxon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231056878
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)
Download or read book P.T. Barnum written by A. H. Saxon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher : New York : The Viking Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Barnum's Own Story written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by New York : The Viking Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Church of England quarterly review written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric D. Lehman
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819573329
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Becoming Tom Thumb written by Eric D. Lehman and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “evocative and entertaining” biography of the nineteenth century circus performer who became a global phenomenon (Neil Harris, author of Humbug). When P. T. Barnum met twenty-five-inch-tall Charles Stratton at a Bridgeport, Connecticut hotel in 1843, one of the most important partnerships in entertainment history was born. With Barnum’s promotional skills and the miniature Stratton’s comedic talents, they charmed a Who’s Who of the nineteenth century, from Queen Victoria to Charles Dickens to Abraham Lincoln. Adored worldwide as “General Tom Thumb,” Stratton played to sold-out shows for almost forty years. From his days as a precocious child star to his tragic early death, Becoming Tom Thumb tells the full story of this iconic figure for the first time. It details his triumphs on the New York stage, his epic celebrity wedding, and his around-the-world tour, drawing on newly available primary sources and interviews. From the mansions of Paris to the deserts of Australia, Stratton’s unique brand of Yankee comedy not only earned him the accolades of millions of fans, it helped move little people out of the side show and into the limelight.
Author : Peter Mercer-Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190842792
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Gems of Exquisite Beauty written by Peter Mercer-Taylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the antebellum period, most Americans first encountered European classical music through hundreds of hymn tunes that tapped into classical melodies. This book is the first in-depth study of the rise and fall of these popular, but largely overlooked, adaptations and their place in nineteenth-century American musical life.
Author : Bluford Adams
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816626311
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book E Pluribus Barnum written by Bluford Adams and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501118714
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Barnum written by Robert Wilson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.
Author : University of California, Berkeley. Library
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Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Author-title Catalog written by University of California, Berkeley. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Gribben
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 1588385663
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain's Literary Resources written by Alan Gribben and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Alan Gribben, a foremost Twain scholar, made waves in 1980 with the publication of Mark Twain's Library, a study that exposed for the first time the breadth of Twain's reading and influences. Prior to Gribben's work, much of Twain's reading history was assumed lost, but through dogged searching Gribben was able to source much of Twain's library. Mark Twain's Literary Resources is a much-expanded examination of Twain's library and readings. Volume I included Gribben's reflections on the work involved in cataloging Twain's reading and analysis of Twain's influences and opinions. This volume, long awaited, is an in-depth and comprehensive accounting of Twain's literary history. Each work read or owned by Twain is listed, along with information pertaining to editions, locations, and more. Gribben also includes scholarly annotations that explain the significance of many works, making this volume of Mark Twain's Literary Resources one of the most important additions to our understanding of America's greatest author.
Author : P. T. Barnum
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Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs: or, forty years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum written by P. T. Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Woolf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313292X
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Wonders written by John Woolf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born.Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle—of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real stories—human dramas that so often eclipsed the fantasy presented on the stage—of the performing men, women and children, have been forgotten or marginalized in the histories of the very people who exploited them. In this richly evocative account, John Woolf uses a wealth of recently discovered material to bring to life the sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, always extraordinary stories of people who used their (dis)abilities and difference to become some of the first international celebrities. Through their lives we discover afresh some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of show business, of celebrity, of advertising, and of “alternative facts” while also exploring the tensions between the power of fame, the impact of exploitation, and our fascination with “otherness.”
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections: Theatre Collection: books on the theatre. 9 v written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978805861
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Natural History written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly expanded and in full color, this groundbreaking book argues that early American natural historians had a distinctly poetic sensibility, producing work that had a visionary intensity. Covering naturalists from John James Audubon to PT Barnum, it considers not only natural history writing, but also illustrations, photographs, and actual collections of flora and fauna. Photography and all associated expenses made possible by a generous grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund
