The Humbugs of the World
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- First published
- 1865
- Pages
- 298
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Publisher's Note and Introduction
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
11:41 -
Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
12:24 -
Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
16:23 -
Chapter 26
15:46 -
Chapter 27
21:49 -
Chapter 28
8:46 -
Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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Chapter 31
13:05 -
Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
21:23 -
Chapter 34
17:50 -
Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
15:42 -
Chapter 37
11:25 -
Chapter 38
13:28 -
Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
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Chapter 41
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Chapter 42
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Chapter 43
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Chapter 44
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Chapter 45
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Chapter 46
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Chapter 47
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 49
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Chapter 50
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The Humbugs of the World is a book by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), published in 1865. The book catalogues and analyzes various forms of fraud, deception, and humbug that Barnum had observed across his long career as American showman, promoter, and businessman.
Barnum himself had been associated with various forms of theatrical humbug across his showman career. His display of Joice Heth as the supposed 161-year-old nurse of George Washington, the Fiji Mermaid hoax, and various other Barnum promotions had blurred the line between honest entertainment and outright fraud in ways that contemporary observers had often criticized. The Humbugs of the World addresses the question of where the line falls and what distinguishes legitimate entertainment showmanship from genuine fraud.
Barnum draws on his extensive personal knowledge of the American showman business and on his broader observation of various American commercial and religious humbugs of the mid nineteenth century. The book includes treatments of spiritualism, of various religious humbugs, of financial frauds, and of the broader culture of misrepresentation that nineteenth century American commercial life generated.
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- Author
- P. T. Barnum
- First published
- 1865
- Reading time
- About 8 hours
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Memoir
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