P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman

P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD condition. 358pp. Illustrated endpapers, black and white and color photographs and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. "Barnum dedicated his long career to alleviating the severe and drudging practicalness he considered the chief defect of American civilization. His remedy? A prodigious swarm of divas, minstrels, circuses, museums of curiosities, beauty pageants, sideshows, fat-baby and poultry contests whatever it took to entertain his fellow citizens while making him one of his country's first millionaires. With P.T. Barnum: America s Greatest Showman, the Messrs Kunhardt rediscover the genius and vision of an unmatched impresario and entrepreneur. In vivid words and spellbinding pictures (more than 500 photographs, engravings, and color lithographs from 41 different archives), we meet a man of complex motives, a master of merchandise, an inveterate self-promoter often reviled for his opportunism. We meet the man who did NOT say "There s a sucker born every minute"; whose best friends were clergymen; whose autobiography sold more than a million copies; who took a public leap through a flaming hoop to prove to the ASPCA that his performing horses were in no danger; who (allegedly) plotted with Samuel Clemens to lease a comet s tail to take a million passengers on a guided tour of outer space.". Artikel-Nr. ABE-1745983460251

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