E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture
E Pluribus Barnum: The Great Showman and the Making of U.S. Popular Culture
by Bluford Adams
University of Minnesota Press, 1997 Paper: 978-0-8166-2631-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8166-2630-4 Library of Congress Classification GV1811.B3A525 1997 Dewey Decimal Classification 338.7617913092
TOC
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “E Pluribus Barnum”
1.
“All Things to All People”: P. T. Barnum in American Culture
2.
The Jenny Lind Tour: “Where's Barnum?”
3.
Barnum's Long Arms: The American Museum
4.
Barnum's Lecture Room: Excavating the Politics of the Moral Drama
5.
“A Stupendous Mirror of Departed Empires”: The Barnum Hippodromes and Circuses
Conclusion “A Transient Disease”: Barnumism at the World's Columbian Exposition