![]() ![]() Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses.įrom a dabbler in the two-a-day ham-and-egg vaudeville, to a trouper in the South, to proprietor of the American Museum, and finally to owner of the great circus that now bears his name, Barnum was a Yankee, a Connecticut Yankee, to be exact, and many are the tales, of business deals that smack of the wisdom of the Nutmeg state. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. ![]() He believed that the universal "Yankee nation" to which he dedicates his book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. Rather does he paint himself, in loose, easy sentences stuffed with first personal pronouns, as a man with a mission. ![]() BARNUM is perhaps best known to the American people for his statistics on the birth rate of the American sucker, but in his autobiography he sedulously avoids the attitude expressed in his famous aphorism. ![]()
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