Sujets :
Barnum, Phineas Taylor [directeur de cirque]
Propriétaires de cirque - États-Unis - Biographies
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus [compagnie de cirque]

Dépouillement du document :
Introduction / Terence Whalen

My Early History
Clerk in a Store---Anecdotes
Sunday-School---Old Meeting-House
Anecdotes with an Episode
A Batch of Incidents
Incidents and Various Schemes
Struggling---Joice Heth---Vivalla
The Travelling Circus
The American Museum
European Tour---Tom Thumb
The Jenny Lind Enterprise
``Side Shows''---Buffalo Hunt, Etc.
Temperance and Agriculture
Sundry Business Enterprises

Résumé :
For more than fifty years, Phineas T. Barnum embodied all that was grand and fraudulent in American mass culture. Over the course of a life that spanned the nineteenth century (1810-91), he inflicted himself upon a surprisingly willing public in a variety of guises, from newspaper editor (or libeler) to traveling showman (or charlatan) and distinguished public benefactor (or shameless hypocrite)." "Barnum deliberately cultivated his ambiguous public image through a lifelong advertising campaign, shrewdly exploiting the cultural and technological capabilities of the new publishing industry. While running his numerous shows and exhibitions, Barnum managed to publish newspaper articles, exposes of fraud (not his own), self-help tracts, and a series of best-selling autobiographies, each promising to give "the true history of my many adventures."

Remerciement au donateur : Jacques Clairoux

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.309 2 B263l 2022

Contenu  : Autobiographies

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