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ISBN: 0819573329 9780819573322 9780819573315 0819573310 Year: 2013 Publisher: Middletown, Connecticut
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The definitive biography of an iconic American entertainer
Circus performers --- Dwarfs (Persons) --- Entertainers --- Performers, Circus --- Circus workers --- Dwarves (Persons) --- Little people (Persons) --- LPs (Persons) --- Midgets --- Short people --- Barnum, P. T. --- Thumb, Tom, --- Stratton, Charles Sherwood, --- Tom Thumb, --- Thumb, Thomas, --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor, --- Parn̲am, P. T., --- Barnam, P. T., --- Dwarfs --- Circus performers.
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ISBN: 1137020903 1137020881 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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This book holds classical liberalism responsible for an American concept of beauty that centers upon women, wilderness, and machines. For each of the three beauty components, a cultural entrepreneur supremely sensitive to liberalism’s survival agenda is introduced. P.T. Barnum’s exhibition of Jenny Lind is a masterful combination of female elegance and female potency in the subsistence realm. John Muir’s Yosemite Valley is surely exquisite, but only after a rigorous liberal education prepares for its experience. And Harley Earl’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air is a dreamy expressionist sculpture, but with a practical 265 cubic inch V-8 underneath. Not that American beauty has been uniformly pragmatic. The 1950s are reconsidered for having temporarily facilitated a relaxation of the liberal survival priorities, and the creations of painter Jackson Pollock and jazz virtuoso Ornette Coleman are evaluated for their resistance to the pressures of pragmatism. The author concludes with a provocative speculation regarding a future liberal habitat where Emerson’s admonition to attach stars to wagons is rescinded. .
Aesthetics, American --- Political aspects. --- American aesthetics --- Political theory. --- United States-Politics and gover. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Political Theory. --- US Politics. --- American Culture. --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- United States—Politics and government. --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Barnum, P. T. --- Muir, John, --- Earl, Harley. --- Earl, Harley J. --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor, --- Parn̲am, P. T., --- Barnam, P. T., --- Political science. --- America --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- American Politics. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Politics and government. --- America. --- Social aspects
ISBN: 0674042654 9780674042650 0674006364 9780674006362 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA
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Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the contours of race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an elderly enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. Seizing upon the novelty, the newly emerging commercial press turned her act--and especially her death--into one of the first media spectacles in American history.
Popular culture --- Women slaves --- Freak shows --- Whites --- African Americans in popular culture --- Racism in popular culture --- Death in popular culture --- Afro-Americans in popular culture --- Sideshows --- History --- Social aspects --- Race identity --- Barnum, P. T. --- Heth, Joice, --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor, --- Parn̲am, P. T., --- Barnam, P. T., --- Northeastern States --- Northeast (U.S.) --- Northeastern United States --- United States, Northeastern --- Race relations. --- Race relations --- Barnum, Phineas Taylor --- United States --- Biography --- 19th century --- Heth, Joice --- White persons --- Ethnology --- Caucasian race --- White people --- Enslaved women --- Women, Enslaved --- Enslaved persons
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