num_pages: 289
description: Profiles some 200 lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and "human torso" Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes. 20,000 first printing.
language: English
title: American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
titlecomplete: American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
genres: Magic, Historical, Biography, Americana, Nonfiction, Cultural Studies, Art, Research, Disability, History
ratings_count: 547
publisher: Jeremy Tarcher/Penguin