Battle for the Big Top
Subtitle: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: Jun 15, 2021
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781541762282
Notes: Source title: Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Table of contents: label: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: World on fire
pagenum: 5; label: Before the big top
pagenum: 9; label: The periodic table of circus elements
pagenum: 13; label: On American shores
pagenum: 19; label: Pachyderm on the half shelf
pagenum: 25; label: Readying for takeoff
pagenum: 33; label: How they roll
pagenum: 41; label: What's in a name
pagenum: 47; label: Growing a stake
pagenum: 53; label: Clash of the Titans
pagenum: 59; label: A showman hits his stride
pagenum: 65; label: First tour of duty
pagenum: 75; label: Museum master
pagenum: 81; label: General Tom
pagenum: 87; label: Est arrive
pagenum: 93; label: Riches to rags, and back again
pagenum: 99; label: The circus comes calling
pagenum: 107; label: Mr. B, meet Mr. B.
pagenum: 117; label: On massive shoulders
pagenum: 123; label: The greatest show
pagenum: 131; label: Upstarts
pagenum: 135; label: The coming men
pagenum: 141; label: Punch and counter punch
pagenum: 147; label: Building a Leviathan
pagenum: 153; label: Terms of success
pagenum: 159; label: The price of love
pagenum: 167; label: Last man standing
pagenum: 175; label: Patriarch of paradise
pagenum: 181; label: The last race
pagenum: 189; label: After the ball
pagenum: 195; label: out of the ashes
pagenum: 203; label: Rock and roll to the rescue
pagenum: 209; label: What remains
pagenum: 219; label: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 225; label: Notes
pagenum: 227; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 235; label: Index
pagenum: 241