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- The editors have lavishly illustrated this brand-new, oversized edition. The ultimate showman and master of the humbug, Phineas Taylor Barnum has collected in this volume a clown car stuffed with delightful anecdotes, yarns, and tales about the greatest humbugs and hoaxes ever... Read Full Overview

One of Mr. Barnum's secrets of success is his unique methods of advertising, and we can readily understand how he can bear to be denounced as a "Humbug," because this popular designation though undeserved in the popular acceptation of it, "brought grist to his mill." He has constantly... Read Full Overview

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Reproduction of the original: The Humbugs of the World by P.T Barnum

P. T. Barnum, best-known for his own use of hoaxes in his popular Barnum & Bailey Circus, found that the use of hoaxes was acceptable when the audience was getting the entertainment they paid for. When it came to religious hoaxes, fraud, and swindling, Barnum was avidly against... Read Full Overview

Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), was an infamous American showman. In 1835 he purchased and exhibited a blind and almost completely paralyzed African- American slave woman, Joice Heth, claimed by Barnum to have been the nurse of George Washington, and to be over a hundred and... Read Full Overview

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Humbugs of the World is a classic book written by P.T. Barnum, the famous American showman and circus owner. The book is a collection of stories and anecdotes about various hoaxes, scams, and frauds that have been perpetrated throughout history. Barnum was a master of deception... Read Full Overview

Humbugs of the World is a book written by P.T. Barnum, the famous showman and circus owner. The book is a collection of stories and essays about various hoaxes, scams, and frauds that Barnum encountered throughout his career. It includes descriptions of fake mermaids, fortune-tellers,... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original... Read Full Overview