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The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P. T. Barnum by Irving Wallace

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5.0

This book was absolutely awesome. I mean, P.T. Barnum! I grew up hearing about his circus and how amazing it was! (my grandparents still have posters of it, somewhere) He was the man who made a million, lost it, and made another million!! He played practical jokes, awed and wowed the world with his discovery of the unatural, and changed the way we view the world.
My favorite part is where he asked the newspaper to post his obituary before he died because he wanted to see what they would say :D
He was a giant easily forgotten in history, a loss that is felt more than we know.
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