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Showman, con man, family man: P.T. Barnum’s many faces

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

16 December 2017

9:00 AM

‘There’s a sucker born every minute.’ That was the P.T. Barnum battle cry. It has come to have a ring of contempt, but no one loved a sucker more than Barnum. Entertain them, he said. Thrill them, shock them. Make ’em laugh, make ’em cry. Give ’em the old razzle-dazzle.

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