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Art of Money-Getting

Golden Rules for Making Money

AvP T Barnum

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

86 kr

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Konsten att tjäna pengar

AvP T Barnum

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

107 kr

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Den legendariske nöjesproducenten P.T. Barnum började sin bana som bedragare. Som ung i 1830-talets New York tjänade han pengar på bluffar som »George Washingtons 161-åriga amma« och spred falska nyheter för att få mer klirr i kassan. Med åldern blev han seriösare och försökte delvis kompensera för forna synder, bland annat genom att skänka stora summor till välgörenhet. Hans liv var som en berg-och-dalbana: han växte upp på en blygsam bondgård, blev stormrik på sina verksamheter, förlorade nästan allt på grund av dåliga investeringar – och vann sedan tillbaka allt med råge. När han dog 1891 efterlämnade han en förmögenhet på tio miljoner dollar, en på den tiden enorm summa som placerade honom i USA:s ekonomiska toppskikt.

1880 gav Barnum ut denna lilla bok som summerade allt han lärt sig under sitt långa affärsliv. Den är lättsam i tonen men innehåller råd som är lika nyttiga nu som de var då. Den lär oss bland annat att skilja på sann och falsk sparsamhet, vilka egenskaper vi måste odla för att lyckas och hur vi väcker köplust. Konsten att tjäna pengar är inget mysterium för Barnum utan mest en fråga om inställning: »Vill man verkligen bli ekonomiskt fri är det bara att bestämma sig för det och vidta de rätta stegen, så klarar man det lätt.«

Life of P.T. Barnum

AvP. T. Barnum

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

32 kr

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century… In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family, small-time Connecticut businessman P. T. Barnum moved to New York City. With true entrepreneurial spirit and against all odds, he wowed audiences with his ensemble of musical spectacles, attractions and variety shows – often exploiting the vulnerable for entertainment value. A master showman, his crowning achievement was the world-famous circus, Barnum & Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth.In this account of his life and work, written by the man himself and first published in 1855, P. T. Barnum creates an aura of excitement about himself and his enduring fame, confirming his reputation as the greatest impresario of all time and revealing the controversial decisions that helped him to his fortune.

Struggles and Triumphs

Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum

AvP. T. Barnum

Häftad, Engelska, 1981

224 kr

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Written with the same energy and imagination Barnum brought to all his endeavors, this autobiography is a manual on getting rich, an occasional sermon on the merits of Christianity, and a survey of popular entertainment. When the first version was published in 1855, it became an immediate bestseller. Read today, it is not only a wonderful portrait of the most colorful figure in nineteenth-century American life but also a fascinating document of his times. He schemed to entrance the American people—to shock, amuse, and surprise them. And he succeeded. P.T. Barnum introduced the American public to Tom Thumb, the Siamese twins Chang and Eng, and the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind. He made Americans open their eyes in amazement at thousands of “oddities,” some real, some manufactured. Struggles and Triumphs is the life story of America’s first purveyor of pop culture—a man who indulged in outright chicanery and yet managed to retain an image (most of the time) of unassailable moral rectitude.

Barnum's Own Story

The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum

AvP. T. Barnum

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

139 kr

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Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness and his exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits. In a classic of self-accusation and self-justification, he reveals the stories behind his famous hoaxes and publicity stunts, exposing 19th-century America's gullibility and thirst for marvels. The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman as Barnum, is scheduled for release in December 2017. Illustrations throughout.

True Life of the World's Greatest Showman

AvP T Barnum

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

304 kr

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Life of P.T. Barnum, by Himself

AvP T Barnum

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

359 kr

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AvP T Barnum

Häftad, Franska, 2025

235 kr

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The Humbugs of the World

AvP. T. Barnum

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

317 kr

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Ebenezer Scrooge's cry of 'Humbug!' is well known throughout the English-speaking world. But what did he mean? In this entertaining book, P. T. Barnum (1810-91), defines 'humbug' as 'glittering appearances by which to suddenly arrest public attention, and attract the public eye and ear'. A showman himself and the creator of 'The Greatest Show on Earth', Barnum was famous for his own tricks, and describes here some of the most fascinating and outrageous examples perpetrated in his time. He explores the cases of Mr Warren, who wrote an advertisement in enormous letters on the pyramids of Giza, and the Fox daughters, who caused a stir among spiritualists in New York when they held seances with tapping spirits - in fact their own cracking knee joints. First published in 1866, this tour of Victorian humbug, fraud, superstition and quackery will appeal to social historians and readers interested in nineteenth-century popular culture.

Struggles and Triumphs

Or, Forty Years' Recollections

AvP T Barnum

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

652 kr

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