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"I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, &amp;c. to attract attention to a <i>show,"</i> Phineas Taylor Barnum wrote to a publisher in 1860. "I don't believe in 'duping the public,' but I believe in first attracting &amp; then pleasing them."<br> The name P.T. Barnum is virtually synonymous with the fine art of self-advertisement and the apocryphal statement, "There's a sucker born every minute." Nearly a century after his death, Barnum remains one of America's most celebrated figures.<br> In the <i>Selected Letters of P.T. Barnum,</i> A.H. Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes.<br> Always the king of showmen, Barnum considered himself a museum man first and was forever on the lookout for "curiosities," whether animate or inanimate. His early career included such outright frauds as Joice Heth, the "161-year-old nurse of George Washington," a

Author

and introduced by A. H. Saxon

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231054126

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Memoir