Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams

Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination

Rachel Adams

296 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced

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A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of...

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