num_pages: 454
description: 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.
language: English
title: P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
titlecomplete: P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man
characters: P.T. Barnum
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 25
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Barnard Hewitt Award
publisher: Columbia University Press