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That is a fast-paced, carefully recorded, and abundant biography of Barnum, the greatest showman ever, the North american from Bethel, Connecticut, whose eccentricities and oblique, cynical approach to humanity altered entertainment into a huge, amazingly profitable business. As bachelor, hubby (twice), father, and grandfather, Barnum comes to life in Mr. Wallace's packed audiobook, an exceedingly interesting and human being man. Here, too, are NEW YORK in all its 19th hundred years color, the London of Queen Victoria, and the Paris of Napoleon III. In 1842, Barnum opened up the first of the great museums of curiosities and freaks, adding immeasurably to the gaiety of New York life. He exhibited the tiny Charles Sherwood Stratton so effectively that he became known as Standard Tom Thumb, a world-famous figure. In 1850, Barnum brought in Jenny Lind for a concert travel beginning at Castle Garden (later the Aquarium in Power supply Area), which more than prefigured the later exploits of S. Hurok. When past 60, Barnum opened up in Brooklyn "THE BEST Show on Earth," the first great American going circus. Combining a decade later with James Anthony Bailey, he offered to millions of North american children and grownups The Barnum and Bailey Circus. He bought from the London Zoological Contemporary society the huge elephant that became known just about everywhere as Jumbo. And always, he shrewdly recognized that people did not mind being misled ("There are a sucker delivered every minute"), if they were only interested. Besides the towering figure of Barnum himself, this audiobook's solid of characters includes not only Jenny Lind, Jumbo, and Tom Thumb, but also such ill-assorted information as Chang and Eng (the initial Siamese Twins), Queen Victoria herself, captive white whales, The Feejee Mermaid, and Abraham Lincoln.
