Embodying all that was grand and fraudulent in American mass culture, P. T. Barnum skillfully crafted his public image through a series of progressively tamer autobiographies. This is the first paperb
The "P. T. Barnum Reader" reveals the trailblazing American showman P. T. Barnum as, by turns, a moral reformer, a habitual hoaxer, an insightful critic, a savvy 'puffer', a master of images, a sparkl
