Original: Although Barnum was also an author , publisher , philanthropist , and for some time a politician , he said of himself , '' I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me , '' and his personal aims were '' to put money in his own coffers . ''
Simplified: Although Barnum was also an author , publisher , and for a while a politician , he said of himself , '' I am a showman by profession . ''