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BOOK: 'AMERICAN HUMBUG'"ROBERT WILSON'S BIO OF P.T. BARNUM by Robert Shuman

(Nathaniel Rich's article appeared in the New York Review of Books, 4/23.) American Humbug Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson Simon and Schuster, 341 pp., $28.00 Since his heyday in the mid-nineteenth century, P.T. Barnum's name has been shorthand for ebullient humbuggery, maximalist entertainment, inexhaustible self-promotion, rags-to-riches industriousness"for fun. After The Greatest Showman (2017), a …

SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 10:34am on April 13, 2020

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