Barnum (Registro nro. 116882)
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| control field | 76157 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 43027009 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | GV |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Werner, M. R. |
| Fuller form of name | (Morris Robert), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1897-1981 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Barnum |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-05-24 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Barnum" by M. R. Werner is a biography written in the early 20th century. It recounts the life and legend of P. T. Barnum, probing beyond his flamboyant self-portrait to assess his character, methods, and influence on American popular culture. The focus is on how a sharp-witted Connecticut Yankee harnessed publicity, spectacle, and shrewd deal-making to build a show business empire. The opening of the book frames Barnum’s own autobiography as both biased and revealing, then argues for a fresh, sourced reappraisal of his place in American life. It sketches his Bethel, Connecticut upbringing—practical jokes, country-store sharpness, early arithmetic prowess, religious tensions, and the formative “Ivy Island” prank—alongside teenage lottery hustles, his father’s death, and a defiant stint as a small-town newspaper editor that led to jail and a triumphal release. Moving to New York, the narrative shows him nearly broke yet relentless, staging his first big attraction with the ancient slave Joice Heth, fanning controversy through the press, and learning the power of sensational publicity. It follows his rough apprenticeship on the road with jugglers and a circus, his willingness to preach on Sunday and sing in blackface on Monday, a string of business failures and swindles, and a turn to writing theatrical ads. The section culminates with his audacious, intricate maneuver to acquire Scudder’s American Museum: persuading the building’s owner to back him, pledging his worthless “Ivy Island” as security, undermining a rival stock scheme through the newspapers, and seizing control—signaled by a cheeky note putting the rival directors on the free list. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1923 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/barnum00wern/page/n3">https://archive.org/details/barnum00wern/page/n3</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76157">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76157</a> |
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