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 | Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Reprint Edition) by Robert (B.1941). Bogdan Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1990 ISBN-10: 0-226-06312-7 / 0226063127 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-06312-6 / 9780226063126 From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays woul | |