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<p>I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, 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 <i>attracting</i> and then pleasing them."</p> <p>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
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- Author
- A H Saxon; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231056878
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Memoir, Performing Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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