The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself John Coleman and arrest anyone they deem

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The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself John Coleman and arrest anyone they deemFor 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) to traveling showman (or charlatan) and distinguished public benefactor (or shameless hypocrite). Barnum deliberately cultivated his ambiguous public