P.T. Barnum
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780231056878
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Circus; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Historical - U.S.; Popular Culture - General; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
First sentence: IN MID-DECEMBER of 1854, in time for the lucrative holiday trade, the New York firm of J. S. Redfield published a strangely disquieting book, dedicated, its writer cockily proclaimed, to "the universal Yankee nation, of which I am proud to be one."