P.T. Barnum : The Legend and the Man

A H Saxon
Columbia University Press
 9780231056878
0-231-05687-7

Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling.

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with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes.