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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wilson, Robert, 1951 February 21- author.     Subjects     Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.     Barnum and Bailey.     Circus owners -- United States -- Biography.     Circus -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wilson, Robert, 1951 February 21- author.       by title:      Barnum [large type] ...         MARC Display

Barnum [large type] : an American life / Robert Wilson. by Wilson, Robert, 1951 February 21- author. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. Subjects Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.   Barnum and Bailey.   Circus owners -- United States -- Biography.   Circus -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781432864255 (large print : hardcover alk. paper) Series:  Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs. Description:  607 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm Edition:  Large Print edition. Contents:  Introduction: "Do you know Barnum?" -- The richest child in town -- The nursemaid -- On Broadway -- The mermaid -- The general -- The queen -- The continent -- At home -- The voice -- Temples of entertainment -- Before the fall -- Putting out fires -- A ruined man -- The war and a wedding -- Fire! -- Show fever -- Marriage bonds -- Excitement, pepper & mustard -- And Bailey -- Last years. Requests:  0 Summary:  "P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the man who made worldwide sensations of Jumbo the Elephant, General Tom Thumb, and the "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind. He was the champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and "humbug." He was, as Barnum argues, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. 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. From birth to death, Phineas Taylor Barnum 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 rebuild and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy time and again 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   North Kohala Public Library Large Type LT 791.3092 Barnum Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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