P. T. Barnum
(1810 - 1891)
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
The Art of Money Getting
Read by:Jill Preston
Running Time:1:38:57 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Genre(s): Non-fiction, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," and his personal aims were "to put money in his own coffers"
The Humbugs of the World
Read by Multiple Readers
Running Time:12:47:52 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Genre(s): Performing Arts, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal reminiscences, and much more.
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, written by Himself
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Running Time:27:17:07 in 1 MP3 Audio CD
Genre(s): Performing Arts, Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It details his life and business struggles up to the year 1872. Not only a showman and a museum operator, but an antislavery politician, Connecticut state legislator, Mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and temperance lecturer, Barnum lays aside some of the gilding to provide his thoughts on his career, economics, how to make money, and other issues of the day.