Author: Phineas Taylor Barnum
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ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Barnum's American Museum, Corner of Broadway and Ann-Street
Author: Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Barnum's New Museum
Author: Barnum's American Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Barnum's New American Museum
Author: Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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P. T. Barnum
Author: Tom Streissguth
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766030220
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Explores the life of showman P. T. Barnum, including his start as an entrepreneur, creating the American Museum, building and losing his fortune, and introducing the three-ring circus to America"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766030220
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"Explores the life of showman P. T. Barnum, including his start as an entrepreneur, creating the American Museum, building and losing his fortune, and introducing the three-ring circus to America"--Provided by publisher.
Catalogue Or Guide Book of Barnum's American Museum, New York
Author: Barnum's American Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Barnum's Bones
Author: Tracey Fern
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466816287
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleonotologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display there today. An appealing and fun picture book biography, with zany and stunning illustrations by Boris Kulikov, BARNUM'S BONES captures the spirit of this remarkable man. Barnum's Bones is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466816287
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleonotologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display there today. An appealing and fun picture book biography, with zany and stunning illustrations by Boris Kulikov, BARNUM'S BONES captures the spirit of this remarkable man. Barnum's Bones is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012.
Humbug
Author: Neil Harris
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317528
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
"This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly entertaining presentation of the outrageous man and his exploits." -- Publisher.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226317528
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
"This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly entertaining presentation of the outrageous man and his exploits." -- Publisher.
Barnum
Author: Robert Wilson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501118714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P.T. Barnum still inspires wonder. Robert Wilson’s vivid new biography captures the full genius, infamy, and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself. He learned as a young man how to wow crowds, and built a fortune that placed him among the first millionaires in the United States. He also suffered tragedy, bankruptcy, and fires that destroyed his life’s work, yet willed himself to recover and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy throughout his life—yet he was also a man of strong convictions, guided in his work not by a desire to deceive, but an eagerness to thrill and bring joy to his audiences. He almost certainly never uttered the infamous line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” instead taking pride in giving crowds their money’s worth and more. Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, tells a gripping story in Barnum, one that’s imbued with the same buoyant spirit as the man himself. In this “engaging, insightful, and richly researched new biography” (New York Journal of Books), Wilson adeptly makes the case for P.T. Barnum’s place among the icons of American history, as a figure who represented, and indeed created, a distinctly American sense of optimism, industriousness, humor, and relentless energy.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501118714
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
“Robert Wilson’s Barnum, the first full-dress biography in twenty years, eschews clichés for a more nuanced story…It is a life for our times, and the biography Barnum deserves.” —The Wall Street Journal P.T. Barnum is the greatest showman the world has ever seen. As a creator of the Barnum & Baily Circus and a champion of wonder, joy, trickery, and “humbug,” he was the founding father of American entertainment—and as Robert Wilson argues, one of the most important figures in American history. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P.T. Barnum still inspires wonder. Robert Wilson’s vivid new biography captures the full genius, infamy, and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself. He learned as a young man how to wow crowds, and built a fortune that placed him among the first millionaires in the United States. He also suffered tragedy, bankruptcy, and fires that destroyed his life’s work, yet willed himself to recover and succeed again. As an entertainer, Barnum courted controversy throughout his life—yet he was also a man of strong convictions, guided in his work not by a desire to deceive, but an eagerness to thrill and bring joy to his audiences. He almost certainly never uttered the infamous line, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” instead taking pride in giving crowds their money’s worth and more. Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar, tells a gripping story in Barnum, one that’s imbued with the same buoyant spirit as the man himself. In this “engaging, insightful, and richly researched new biography” (New York Journal of Books), Wilson adeptly makes the case for P.T. Barnum’s place among the icons of American history, as a figure who represented, and indeed created, a distinctly American sense of optimism, industriousness, humor, and relentless energy.
The Barnum Museum
Author: Steven Millhauser
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472151062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man! - and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1472151062
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man! - and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.
Art for the Millions
Author: Ellen Sacco
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description