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| phineas taylor barnum family: Life of P.T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1855 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Barnum Robert Wilson, 2020-08-11 “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. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: With Amusement for All LeRoy Ashby, 2006-05-12 With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum P. T. Barnum, 2023-11-10 In Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum, the legendary showman offers a captivating autobiographical narrative that interweaves personal anecdotes with reflections on his remarkable career. Written in a conversational yet eloquent prose style characteristic of 19th-century American literature, Barnum's memoir delves into the complexities of entrepreneurship, fame, and the art of entertainment. His unique insights into the burgeoning world of spectacle and amusement during the Gilded Age serve as both a historical document and a fascinating exploration of the human spirit's resilience against adversity. P. T. Barnum, often hailed as the father of modern marketing, was not only an astute promoter but also a visionary who understood the pulse of public interest. His rich experiences, ranging from humble beginnings to the heights of success with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, reflect his deep understanding of the entertainment industry. This book emerges from a life defined by struggle and triumph, heavily influenced by Barnum's commitment to innovation and his relentless pursuit of the extraordinary. I highly recommend Struggles and Triumphs to readers interested in the intersection of art, commerce, and biography. It is a compelling account that not only entertains but also inspires by exemplifying how creativity and determination can forge a path through life's challenges. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Barnum's Own Story Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1927 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: P.T. Barnum A. H. Saxon, 1989 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. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader Phineas Taylor Barnum, 2005 The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader reveals the trailblazing American showman as, by turns, a moral reformer, a habitual hoaxer, an insightful critic, a savvy puffer, a master of images, a sparkling writer, a relentless provocateur, and an early advocate of family entertainments. Taken together, these selections paint a new and more complete portrait of this complex man than has ever been seen before. James W. Cook's The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader includes large excerpts from Barnum's semi-autobiographical novel The Adventures of an Adventurer (1841), his European letters from 1844-46 informing readers of the New York Atlas of his reception by royalty overseas, selections from his Ancient and Modern Humbugs of the World (Barnum's 1864-65 insider's look into nineteenth-century frauds), and much, much more. The book also features vintage photographs and reproductions of difficult-to-find images from Barnum's two-decade collaboration with the prominent New York lithographers Currier and Ives. Collectively, these materials help us to track the shifting personas of the great showman, his promotional choices, and his publics across the nineteenth century. Book jacket. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: P.T. Barnum the Greatest Showman on Earth: Illustrated Enlarged Special Edition Phineas Barnum, 2021-05-07 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The True Tale of a Giantess Anne Renaud, 2018-09-04 Anna Swan dreamed of a life as big as she was. “When I was small, I was already big news,” begins this picture book biography of Anna Swan. “Because when I was small, I was already TREMENDOUS.” Anna was thirteen pounds at her birth in Nova Scotia in 1846. She grew steadily until she was nearly eight feet tall, and never felt that she fit into her small country life. Then, at age seventeen, Anna moved to New York City to be part of P. T. Barnum’s Gallery of Wonders — and her life changed forever. Fame, world travel, true love! This real-life giantess lived a real-life storybook adventure! |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The True Life of the World's Greatest Showman P. T. Barnum, 2018-12-26 The original autobiography of the World's Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum, now translated to modern English and complete with images of his amazing ground-breaking acts. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum ... Joel Benton, 1891 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Humbugs of the World Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1866 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Struggles and Triumphs Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1869 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus Horatio Alger, 2019-09-25 Reproduction of the original: The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus by Horatio Alger |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno Ellen Bryson, 2011-06-07 Bartholomew Fortuno, the World's Thinnest Man, believes that his unusual body is a gift. Hired by none other than P.T. Barnum to work at his spectacular American Museum--a modern marvel of macabre displays and live performances by Barnum's cast of freaks and oddities--Fortuno has reached the pinnacle of his career. But after a decade of solid performance, he finds his contentment flagging. When a carriage pulls up outside the Museum in the dead of night, bearing Barnum and a mysterious veiled woman--rumored to be a new performer--Fortuno's curiosity is piqued. And when Barnum asks Fortuno to follow her and report back on her whereabouts, his world is turned upsidedown. Why is Barnum so obsessed with this woman? Who is she, really? And why has she taken such a hold of the hearts of those around her? The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno is a moving novelabout human appetites and longings. With pitch-perfect prose, Ellen Bryson explores what it means to be profoundly unique-- and the power of love to transcend even the greatest divisions. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: E Pluribus Barnum Bluford Adams, 1997 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. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott, 1898 The book, David Harum, introduces a very interesting country banker with crackerbarrel philosophy which became a wonderful character for Will Rogers in the movie of the same name. --Tom Bruce at Amazon.com. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Catch a Falling Star Michael Beyer, 2012-10 It was after midnight in 1990, and a group of NASA technicians are playing chess in the lounge. They never notice the soft clicking noises as radiation detectors kick in and a strange code begins taking over a computer monitor. As a glowing saucer zips past the Voyager, locks itself into orbit around Neptune, rolls over, and then disappears from view, the technicians loudly argue over the rules of the game unaware that aliens are headed toward Earth. Unfortunately, the amphibian-like creatures who reproduce in alarming numbers have made a serious mistake. They have chosen a small town in Iowa as the place to launch their invasion, mistakenly thinking they can attack under a cloak of invisibility. But this rural setting is protected by the Pirates, an elite team of adventurers and foilers of evil plots comprised of the most dangerous creatures on planet Earth young boys. As the alien invaders kidnap one of the pirates and begin to examine him for weaknesses, they have no idea that they have in their possession the girl-hating, chaos-creating nuisance that is the bane of all fourth-grade math teachers in town. It may be the last mistake they'll ever make. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Why I Am a Universalist Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1904 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum Candace Fleming, 2009-09-08 Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman! The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings us the larger-than-life biography of showman P. T. Barnum. Known far and wide for his jumbo elephants, midgets, and three-ring circuses, here’ s a complete and captivating look at the man behind the Greatest Show on Earth. Readers can visit Barnum’s American Museum; meet Tom Thumb, the miniature man (only 39 inches tall) and his tinier bride (32 inches); experience the thrill Barnum must have felt when, at age 60, he joined the circus; and discover Barnum’s legacy to the 19th century and beyond. Drawing on old circus posters, photographs, etchings, ticket stubs—and with incredible decorative art by Ray Fenwick—this book presents history as it’s never been experienced before—a show-stopping event! |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Life of P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1855 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Art of Money Getting or Golden Rules for making Money Phineas Taylor Barnum, 2016-10-26 Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. But however easy it may be found to make money, I have no doubt many of my hearers will agree it is the most difficult thing in the world to keep it. The road to wealth is, as Dr. Franklin truly says, as plain as the road to the mill. It consists simply in expending less than we earn; that seems to be a very simple problem. PT Barnum |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Autobiography of P.T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1855 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Art of Money Getting P. T. Barnum, 2021-03-20 The Art of Money Getting was written by P. T. Barnum, who is widely known as an important historical entrepreneur as founder of the famous traveling circus, but in this publication Barnum shares his knowledge of business and teaches readers how to be successful in making money. This is an excellent book for individuals who are interested in learning from an important historical business leaders own personal success and also serves as an excellent motivational writing intended for those looking to be successful and make lots of money. This Ultimate Book Club edition also includes discussion questions for the perfect book club gathering. It is beautifully designed to be a decorative masterpiece on your shelf and a great way to get your classic book collection started. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Barnum Morris Robert Werner, 1923 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Prince of Humbug Catherine M. Andronik, 1994 In this colorful and exuberant biography, Catherine Andronik chronicles the life of a famous promoter and businessman. With numerous photographs and period illustrations, Prince of Humbugs brings to young readers the larger-than-life story of P. T. Barnum, the master showman. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Humbug Neil Harris, 1981-05-15 This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly entertaining presentation of the outrageous man and his exploits. -- Publisher. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: There's a Customer Born Every Minute Joe Vitale, 2010-12-23 Praise for THERE'S A CUSTOMER BORN EVERY MINUTE Joe Vitale has created an entertaining, educational, and motivational manual-with the help of P.T. Barnum-that belongs in every hotel room alongside the Bible. Then, guests might read his inspirational book first, and give thanks to God for this worthy discovery. —Alan Abel, media hoaxer, author, consultantand lecturer on Using Your Wits to Win If you're going to excel in business, learning about a showman like Barnum and applying some of the lessons he taught can give you valuable insights. Joe Vitale has captured ten of these lessons (he calls them 'rings of power') and shows how you can apply them in a way that will open your eyes and stretch your imagination. There's a lot of money-making and fun wisdom here. —Joseph Sugarman, Chairman, BluBlocker Corporation Finally someone does it!!! Joe Vitale reveals the REAL P.T. Barnum! Vitale highlights the outrageously astute marketing of Barnum. Barnum's driving belief certainly was that there IS a customer 'born' every minute. You will glean a number of useful 'new' marketing ideas that you can instantly use in your business. And you will learn about one of the savviest marketers of a time gone by. Fun, exciting, insightful, and packed with ideas! Genius! —Kevin Hogan, author of The Science of Influence and The Psychology of Persuasion I love this book. If you'd like to know the real story about one of the most fascinating characters in American history, told by a master storyteller (and the person who probably knows more about him than anyone else), read this book. Barnum is not the guy portrayed by the legend attached to his name. He is much, much more, and Vitale tells his story with the can't-put-it-down passion and excitement he's become so well known for. —Bill Harris, President, Centerpointe Research Institute |
| phineas taylor barnum family: How I Made Millions Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1918 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Life of P. T. Barnum, written by himself, etc Phineas Taylor BARNUM, 1855 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: American Sideshow Marc Hartzman, 2006-09-21 A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, what's fake, and what's just downright bizarre. You've probably heard of Tom Thumb. The Elephant Man. Perhaps even Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins. But what about Eli Bowen, the legless acrobat? Or Prince Randian, the human torso? These were just a few of the many stars that shone during the heyday of the American sideshow, from 1840 to 1950. American Sideshow chronicles the lives of truly amazing performers, examining these brave and extraordinary curiosities not just as sideshow performers but as people, delving into the lives they led and the ways they were able to triumph over and even benefit from their abnormalities. American Sideshow discusses the rise and fall of the original sideshows and their subsequent replacement by today's self-made freaks. With the progress of modern medicine, technological advancements, and the wonderful world of body modification, abnormalities are being overcome, treated and even prevented: Siamese twins can now be separated, and in addition to this, tongues can be forked, horns surgically implanted, and earlobes removed. There are also, of course, modern-day giants, fire eaters, sword swallowers, glass eaters, human blockheads, and oh, so much more. These fascinating personalities are celebrated through intimate biographies paired with stunning photographs. Approximately two hundred performers from the past one hundred and sixty years are featured, giving readers a comprehensive and sometimes astonishing look into the history of the American sideshow |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Life of P. T. Barnum, written by himself. Author's edition. With illustrations and a portrait Phineas Taylor BARNUM, 1855 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The life of P.T. Barnum, by himself. Author's ed Phineas Taylor Barnum, 1855 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Boston Home Journal , 1898 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: World's Columbian Exposition Daniel Hudson Burnham, Francis Davis Millet, 1894 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Boys' Life of Barnum Harvey Woods Root, 1926 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Circus and the City Matthew Wittmann, 2012 Featuring archival photography, this text documents a wide variety of ephemera, images and artefacts relating to the history of the circus in New York City, from the seminal equestrian displays of the 18th century to the iconic American railroad circus advertisements of the late 19th century and beyond. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: Theatre Magazine W. J. Thorold, Arthur Hornblow, Arthur Hornblow (Jr.), Perriton Maxwell, Stewart Beach, 1910 |
| phineas taylor barnum family: American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History Gina Misiroglu, 2015-03-26 Counterculture, while commonly used to describe youth-oriented movements during the 1960s, refers to any attempt to challenge or change conventional values and practices or the dominant lifestyles of the day. This fascinating three-volume set explores these movements in America from colonial times to the present in colorful detail. American Countercultures is the first reference work to examine the impact of countercultural movements on American social history. It highlights the writings, recordings, and visual works produced by these movements to educate, inspire, and incite action in all eras of the nation's history. A-Z entries provide a wealth of information on personalities, places, events, concepts, beliefs, groups, and practices. The set includes numerous illustrations, a topic finder, primary source documents, a bibliography and a filmography, and an index. |
| phineas taylor barnum family: The Saturday Evening Post , 1922 |
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