Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum (The Penguin American Library)
Carl Bode, professor emeritus of English/American Studies at the University of Maryland, is a freelance writer.  Founder and first president of the American Studies Assocation, he is also past president of he Popular Culture Association and the Mencken Society.  His books includeThe American Lyceum,Antebellum Culture, andMencken.  He has editedCollected Poems of Henry ThoreauandThe Best of Thoreau's Journals; and has co-editedThe Correspondence of Henry David Thoreauand, in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley,The Portable Emerson.