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IN MID-DECEMBER of 1854, in time for the lucrative holiday trade, the New York firm of J. S. Redfield published a strangely disquieting book, dedicated, its writer cockily proclaimed, to "the universal Yankee nation, of which I am proud to be one."
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Nearly a century after his death, every American knows something about P. T. Barnum and his many personae: we know him as a circus proprietor and founder of 'The Greatest Show On Earth, ' or we know him as the discoverer of General Tom Thumb, the midget, and the impresario of the renowned Swedish singer Jenny Lind, or perhaps we know him as a man addicted to practical jokes, whose most memorable pronouncement is supposed to have been 'there's a sucker born every minute.' In this colorful biography Arthur Saxon explores this 'legend in his own time, ' and presents a truer, less cliche-ridden picture of the man than anyone so far has done.
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- Title P. T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
- Author A. H. Saxon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 454
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 1995-05-25
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780231056878 / 0231056877
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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