P. T. Barnum (1810–1891)
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Barnum, P. T.
- Officiële naam
- Barnum, Phineas Taylor
- Geboortedatum
- 1810-07-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1891-04-07
- Graflocatie
- Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Bethel, Connecticut, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Beroepen
- newspaper publisher (unsuccessful)
showman
performer (blackface minstrelsy)
politician (Connecticut legislature 1865-?)
mayor (Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1876-76)
"museum" operator (toon alle 8)
circus operator
author - Relaties
- Bailey, James (business partner)
- Organisaties
- Bridgeport Hospital (founder, first president)
P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome (founder)
Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth
Tufts University (founding trustee and benefactor) - Korte biografie
- P.T. Barnum was a 19th Century American showman and circus promoter, best known for founding the first modern three-ring circus, which eventually became the largest and most important circus in the world, the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. Barnum purchased Scudder's American Museum in New York in 1841, and built it into one of the most successful operations in the US. Famous people he introduced to the American public included Charles Strattan, the famous midget known as “General Tom Thumb”; soprano Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale”; and Chang and Eng Bunker, the original "Siamese" (conjoined) twins.
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The Art of Money Getting [with Biographical… door P. T. Barnum
Some of the content still can be applied to the modern day person.
½
This was not my usual reading fare, but I was intrigued, as my vague knowledge of this man was that he coined famous phrases such as 'There's one born every minute'. However he does not allude to that in his autobiography, but his career perhaps demonstrates it.
As an autobiography it is rather bitty and rambling and the beginning consists mostly of accounts of practical jokes the males of the community where he grew up played on each other - women were mostly excluded it seems. But Barnum's grandfather was a great one for this and also for speculation of various kinds - he was involved in state lotteries for example, where big commissions could be made - and the young Barnum, named after his grandfather Phineas, took after him. From an early age young Barnum did not enjoy working for a salary but instead wanted to make money for himself and try out various schemes. Some were more successful than others, and in some he made money only to lose it through being swindled or having employees who absconded.
As time went on, Barnum moved into the entertainment business as a manager, and he toured the United States with various acts including dancers, jugglers etc, and was involved with circuses. Eventually he engaged a young boy who had a growth problem and, calling this boy General Tom Thumb, enjoyed great success touring the States and then the United Kingdom and Europe where the boy was a great favourite with the royalty of those countries as well as the public at large. Having amassed quite a fortune through this, and hearing of a singer called Jenny Lind who was nicknamed the Swedish Nightingale, he set out to convince her, through one of his agents, to sign on with very favourable terms for a large tour of concerts. Quite a chunk of the book details his travels with her.
As well as this, he managed to obtain a museum in New York where he exhibited various curiosities and made it into a great success. This was an age where the public craved marvels and novelties as shown by the way they flocked to see a young boy with a growth problem singing, dancing and acting out various characters plus being driven around in small carriage driven by Shetland ponies. Earlier on Barnum had taken an financial share in an elderly black woman who had been presented to him as the nurse of George Washington and had toured her around the country - the woman came from the southern States and was in effect sold to him and a partner. This and the idea of the boy being objects that people went to gawp at, is by modern standards very distasteful, but this simply was not the mindset in the period up to 1850 or so where the book finishes. Things were very politically non correct and this has to be borne in mind by the modern reader: Barnum's attitudes were no different to anyone else of his day apart from a few enlightened people who, for example, were campaigning for the abolition of slavery.
One interesting point is that Barnum was engaged as a public speaker over the years, either on the subject of religion or on the temperance movement - he had signed the pledge and become teetotal and was part of the huge movement that eventually led to Prohibition.
On one page, after telling of an attraction which he had arranged where the routine exaggeration or changing of minor facts was done to make it more of a draw to the public (one example is a team of bell ringers from Lancashire who he persuaded to dress as Swiss men and be billed as such - when one objected that they didn't speak any language but English, he assured them it would be fine because no one in America could understand their accent anyway!), he goes on to speak of how great a comfort Christianity has been to him without a suggestion of awareness that he routinely broke the commandment not to bear false witness! The irony of this appears entirely to pass him by.
Due to his association with various attractions over the years including the "Fejee mermaid" - a skillful sewing together of a mummified monkey and a fish probably done in Japan as he deduced - and similar such things, he had a huge reputation for 'humbug' as it was called. But people of that age didn't really resent having the wool pulled over their eyes. Instead, they admired his cleverness in doing so.
So it is an uneven read, and a bit dull or dry in places, but there are also some interesting insights into the mentality of life in the USA in the first part of the nineteenth century. For that reason I rate it at 3 stars.… (meer)
As an autobiography it is rather bitty and rambling and the beginning consists mostly of accounts of practical jokes the males of the community where he grew up played on each other - women were mostly excluded it seems. But Barnum's grandfather was a great one for this and also for speculation of various kinds - he was involved in state lotteries for example, where big commissions could be made - and the young Barnum, named after his grandfather Phineas, took after him. From an early age young Barnum did not enjoy working for a salary but instead wanted to make money for himself and try out various schemes. Some were more successful than others, and in some he made money only to lose it through being swindled or having employees who absconded.
As time went on, Barnum moved into the entertainment business as a manager, and he toured the United States with various acts including dancers, jugglers etc, and was involved with circuses. Eventually he engaged a young boy who had a growth problem and, calling this boy General Tom Thumb, enjoyed great success touring the States and then the United Kingdom and Europe where the boy was a great favourite with the royalty of those countries as well as the public at large. Having amassed quite a fortune through this, and hearing of a singer called Jenny Lind who was nicknamed the Swedish Nightingale, he set out to convince her, through one of his agents, to sign on with very favourable terms for a large tour of concerts. Quite a chunk of the book details his travels with her.
As well as this, he managed to obtain a museum in New York where he exhibited various curiosities and made it into a great success. This was an age where the public craved marvels and novelties as shown by the way they flocked to see a young boy with a growth problem singing, dancing and acting out various characters plus being driven around in small carriage driven by Shetland ponies. Earlier on Barnum had taken an financial share in an elderly black woman who had been presented to him as the nurse of George Washington and had toured her around the country - the woman came from the southern States and was in effect sold to him and a partner. This and the idea of the boy being objects that people went to gawp at, is by modern standards very distasteful, but this simply was not the mindset in the period up to 1850 or so where the book finishes. Things were very politically non correct and this has to be borne in mind by the modern reader: Barnum's attitudes were no different to anyone else of his day apart from a few enlightened people who, for example, were campaigning for the abolition of slavery.
One interesting point is that Barnum was engaged as a public speaker over the years, either on the subject of religion or on the temperance movement - he had signed the pledge and become teetotal and was part of the huge movement that eventually led to Prohibition.
On one page, after telling of an attraction which he had arranged where the routine exaggeration or changing of minor facts was done to make it more of a draw to the public (one example is a team of bell ringers from Lancashire who he persuaded to dress as Swiss men and be billed as such - when one objected that they didn't speak any language but English, he assured them it would be fine because no one in America could understand their accent anyway!), he goes on to speak of how great a comfort Christianity has been to him without a suggestion of awareness that he routinely broke the commandment not to bear false witness! The irony of this appears entirely to pass him by.
Due to his association with various attractions over the years including the "Fejee mermaid" - a skillful sewing together of a mummified monkey and a fish probably done in Japan as he deduced - and similar such things, he had a huge reputation for 'humbug' as it was called. But people of that age didn't really resent having the wool pulled over their eyes. Instead, they admired his cleverness in doing so.
So it is an uneven read, and a bit dull or dry in places, but there are also some interesting insights into the mentality of life in the USA in the first part of the nineteenth century. For that reason I rate it at 3 stars.… (meer)
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Some of the titles included in this compendium in this collection include:
Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth
Dale Carnegie - The Art of Public Speaking
Florence Scovel Shinn - The Game of Life and How to Play it
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
P.T. Barnum - The Art of Money Getting
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance
Russell H. Conwell - What You Can Do with Your Will Power
The areas of assistance in improving one’s self, contained within its pages; is not limited to one or two, the expanse of assistance is quite comprehensive, creating a virtual library of knowledge at its readers fingertips, which is why this reviewer has given this book the 5 STARS it has received.… (meer)
Some of the titles included in this compendium in this collection include:
Benjamin Franklin - The Way to Wealth
Dale Carnegie - The Art of Public Speaking
Florence Scovel Shinn - The Game of Life and How to Play it
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
P.T. Barnum - The Art of Money Getting
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance
Russell H. Conwell - What You Can Do with Your Will Power
The areas of assistance in improving one’s self, contained within its pages; is not limited to one or two, the expanse of assistance is quite comprehensive, creating a virtual library of knowledge at its readers fingertips, which is why this reviewer has given this book the 5 STARS it has received.… (meer)
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