P. T. Barnum
The Humbugs of the World
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Produktdetails
- Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC
- Seitenzahl: 364
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
- Gewicht: 508g
- ISBN-13: 9781016810371
- ISBN-10: 1016810377
- Artikelnr.: 66695202
The American showman, businessman, and politician Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891) is best known for his promotion of well-known hoaxes and for co-founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871-2017) with James Anthony Bailey. Although he declared himself: "I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," he was also a novelist, publisher, and philanthropist. His personal objective, according to his detractors, was "to fill his own coffers with cash." The proverb "There's a sucker born every minute" is often attributed to him, despite the lack of any documentation to support this. Before relocating to New York City in 1834, Barnum launched a weekly newspaper in his early twenties and started a small business. He began his career in show business by joining "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater," a variety troupe, and shortly after that, he bought Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed after himself. He promoted hoaxes and human oddities like the Fiji mermaid and General Tom Thumb using the museum as a platform.
Publisher's note
Introduction
Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject
2. Definition of the word humbug
3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug
4. Old Grizzly Adams
5. The golden pigeons
6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon
7. Pease's horehound candy
8. Brandreth's pills
Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress
10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs
11. The 'Ballot-test'
12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm'
13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table
14. Spiritual photographing
15. 'Banner of light'
16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up
17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more
Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food
19. Adulteration in drinks
20. The Peter Funks and their functions
21. Lottery sharks
22. Another lottery humbug
23. A California coal mine
Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug
25. The tulipomania
26. John Bull's great money humbug
27. Business humbugs
Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination
29. The consumptive remedy
30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence
Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost
32. The moon hoax
33. The miscegenation hoax
Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses
35. Haunted houses
36. Magical humbugs
37. Witchcraft
38. Charms and incantations
Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles
40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe'
41. The diamond necklace
42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician
43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV
Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions
45. A religious humbug on John Bull
46. The first humbug in the world
47. Heathen humbugs
48. Modern heathen humbugs
49. Ordeals.
Introduction
Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject
2. Definition of the word humbug
3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug
4. Old Grizzly Adams
5. The golden pigeons
6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon
7. Pease's horehound candy
8. Brandreth's pills
Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress
10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs
11. The 'Ballot-test'
12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm'
13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table
14. Spiritual photographing
15. 'Banner of light'
16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up
17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more
Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food
19. Adulteration in drinks
20. The Peter Funks and their functions
21. Lottery sharks
22. Another lottery humbug
23. A California coal mine
Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug
25. The tulipomania
26. John Bull's great money humbug
27. Business humbugs
Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination
29. The consumptive remedy
30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence
Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost
32. The moon hoax
33. The miscegenation hoax
Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses
35. Haunted houses
36. Magical humbugs
37. Witchcraft
38. Charms and incantations
Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles
40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe'
41. The diamond necklace
42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician
43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV
Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions
45. A religious humbug on John Bull
46. The first humbug in the world
47. Heathen humbugs
48. Modern heathen humbugs
49. Ordeals.
Publisher's note
Introduction
Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject
2. Definition of the word humbug
3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug
4. Old Grizzly Adams
5. The golden pigeons
6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon
7. Pease's horehound candy
8. Brandreth's pills
Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress
10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs
11. The 'Ballot-test'
12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm'
13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table
14. Spiritual photographing
15. 'Banner of light'
16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up
17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more
Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food
19. Adulteration in drinks
20. The Peter Funks and their functions
21. Lottery sharks
22. Another lottery humbug
23. A California coal mine
Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug
25. The tulipomania
26. John Bull's great money humbug
27. Business humbugs
Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination
29. The consumptive remedy
30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence
Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost
32. The moon hoax
33. The miscegenation hoax
Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses
35. Haunted houses
36. Magical humbugs
37. Witchcraft
38. Charms and incantations
Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles
40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe'
41. The diamond necklace
42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician
43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV
Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions
45. A religious humbug on John Bull
46. The first humbug in the world
47. Heathen humbugs
48. Modern heathen humbugs
49. Ordeals.
Introduction
Part I. Personal Reminiscences: 1. General view of the subject
2. Definition of the word humbug
3. Monsieur Mangin, the French humbug
4. Old Grizzly Adams
5. The golden pigeons
6. The whales, the angel fish, and the golden pigeon
7. Pease's horehound candy
8. Brandreth's pills
Part II. The Spiritualists: 9. The Davenport brothers, their rise and progress
10. The spirit-rapping and medium humbugs
11. The 'Ballot-test'
12. Spiritual 'letters on the arm'
13. Demonstrations by 'Samson' under a table
14. Spiritual photographing
15. 'Banner of light'
16. Spiritualist humbugs waking up
17. The Davenport brothers shown up once more
Part III. Trade and Business Impositions: 18. Adulterations of food
19. Adulteration in drinks
20. The Peter Funks and their functions
21. Lottery sharks
22. Another lottery humbug
23. A California coal mine
Part IV. Money Manias: 24. The petroleum humbug
25. The tulipomania
26. John Bull's great money humbug
27. Business humbugs
Part V. Medicine and Quacks: 28. Doctors and imagination
29. The consumptive remedy
30. Monsignore Cristoforo Rischi, or Il Créso, the nostrum-vendor of Florence
Part VI. Hoaxes: 31. The Twenty-seventh-street ghost
32. The moon hoax
33. The miscegenation hoax
Part VII. Ghosts and Witchcrafts: 34. Haunted houses
35. Haunted houses
36. Magical humbugs
37. Witchcraft
38. Charms and incantations
Part VIII. Adventurers: 39. The Princess Cariboo, or, the Queen of the Isles
40. Count Cagliostro, alias Joseph Balsamo, known also as 'Cursed Joe'
41. The diamond necklace
42. The Count de St Germain: sage, prophet, and magician
43. Riza Bey, the Persian envoy to Louis XIV
Part IX. Religous Humbugs: 44. Diamond cut diamond, or, Yankee superstitions
45. A religious humbug on John Bull
46. The first humbug in the world
47. Heathen humbugs
48. Modern heathen humbugs
49. Ordeals.