E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture

by Bluford Adams

Book Overview

The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective.

Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford Adams investigates the influence Barnum had on American popular culture of the nineteenth century, and expands our understanding of the ways he continues to influence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816626316
• ISBN13: 9780816626311
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"