The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe.(Book review)

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Reiss, Benjamin | Copyright information

The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe. Edited by James W. Cook. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2005. Pp. x, 258. $19.95.)

The title of this marvelous record of the career of the nineteenth century's most famous human is pure humbug. Judiciously edited and consistently compelling, it is nothing like the "heterogeneous heap of 'curiosities,' valuable and worthless well mixed up together" that one critic found in Barnum's Ameri...

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