The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1482538989 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 60 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author The greatest showman America had ever seen! Creator of wonders from Tom Thumb to the display of the Cardiff Giant!
The greatest showman America had ever seen! Creator of wonders from Tom Thumb to the display of the Cardiff Giant!
Excellent Financial Insight. Denise Sporadically This book should be required reading for all students. high school and college. So much practical information coupled with interesting histroical stories. I'm buying them for all my students.. Common sense tips from a fake mermaid hustler Mason Garrett Old common sense information, interesting from a historical point of view, yet preached by a man who would, "for one thin dime" show you a fake mermaid.
After economic reversals due to bad investments in the 1850s, and years of litigation and public humiliation, he used a lecture tour, mostly as a temperance speaker, to emerge from debt. His museum added America's first aquarium and expanded the wax figure department.. The Art of Money Getting Or; Golden Rules for Making Money. Barnum used the museum as a platform to promote hoaxes and human curiosities such as the '"Feejee" mermaid' and "General Tom Thumb." In 1850 he promoted the American tour of singer Jenny Lind, paying her an unprecedented $1,000 a night for 150 nights. He embarked on an entertainment career, first with a variety troupe called "Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater," and soon after by purchasing Scudder's American Museum, which he renamed after himself. Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. By P.T. Barnum. Although Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician, he said of himself, "I am a showman by professionand all the gilding shall make nothing else of me," and his personal aims were