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University of California, Berkeley - FALL 2012 | ||
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The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself (Updated Edition) by Phineas Taylor Barnum, Terry Whalen (Foreword), Terence (Int) Whalen Paperback, 404 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-252-06902-1 / 0252069021 ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06902-4 / 9780252069024 For more than fifty years, Phineas T. Barnum embodied all that was grand and fraudulent in American mass culture. Over the course of a life that spanned the nineteenth century (1810-91), he inflicted himself upon a surprisingly willing public in a variety of guises, from newspaper editor (or libeler |