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The Art of Money Getting was written by P. T. Barnum. In this publication Barnum shares his knowledge of business and teaches readers how to be successful in making money. This is an excellent book for individuals who are interested in learning from an important historical business leaders own personal success and also serves as an excellent motivational writing intended for those looking to be successful and make lots of money. The Humbugs of the World, published in 1865, exposes several of the chief humbugs of the world, written in the entertaining and humorous style Barnum is known for. Found within are discussions relative to hoaxes, money manias, adventurers, medicine and quacks, religious humbugs, trade and business impositions, spiritualists, ghosts and witchcrafts, and personal reminiscences.Phineas Taylor Barnum ( 1810 – 1891) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the famous traveling circus. Barnum was also an author, publisher, philanthropist, and for some time a politician. His successes may have made him the first "show business" millionaire.

An American con man claims to have a giant's forty-foot fossil skeleton as part of his collection. When it comes time to display it, he claims some animals destroyed it, which ruins him. However, this is part of his plan as a subscription list is opened for his benefit. This volume gives an account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, in all ages. P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) was an American showman who established The Greatest Show on Earth (1871), which merged with its major competition (1881) to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus. One of Mr. Barnum's secrets of success was his unique methods of advertising, and we can readily understand how he can bear to be denounced as a "Humbug," because this popular designation, though undeserved in the popular acceptation of it, "brought grist to his mill." One of the happiest impromptu oratorical efforts that was heard for some time was that made by Barnum at the benefit performance given for his employees on a Friday afternoon. If a stranger wanted to satisfy himself how the great showman had managed so to monopolize the ear and eye of the public during his long career he could not have had a better opportunity of doing so than by listening to this address. Every word, though delivered with apparent carelessness, struck a key note in the hearts of his listeners. Simple, forcible, and touching, it showed how thoroughly this extraordinary man comprehends the character of his countrymen, and how easily he can play upon their feelings. Those who look upon Barnum as a mere charlatan, have really no knowledge of him. It would be easy to demonstrate that the qualities that have placed him in his present position of notoriety and affluence would, in another pursuit, have raised him to far greater eminence. In his breadth of views, his profound knowledge of mankind, his courage under reverses, his indomitable perseverance, his ready eloquence, and his admirable business tact, we recognize the elements that are conducive to success in most other pursuits. More than almost any other living man, Barnum may be said to be a representative type of the American mind.

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The humbugs of the world. An account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits and deceivers generally, in all ages. This book, "The humbugs of the world An account of humbugs, delusions, impositions, quackeries, deceits", by P.T. Barnum, is a replication of a book originally published before 1866. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

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.

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HUMBUGS OF THE WORLD. I. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. CHAPTER T. GENERAL A'lEAV OF THE SUBJECT.- HUMBUG UNIVERSAL.- IN RELIGION".- IN POLITICS.-- IX BUSINESS.- IX SLTKNCE.- IN MEDICINE.- HOW 13 IT TO CEASE.- THE GREATEST IIUMHUG OK ALL. A little reflection will show that humbug is an as-tonishingly wide-spread phenomenon - in fact almost universal. And this is true, although wc exclude crimes and arrant swindles from the definition of it, according to the somewhat careful explanation which is given in the beginning of the chapter succeeding this one. I apprehend that there is no sort of object which men seek to attain, whether secular, moral or religiousi in which humbug is not very often an instrumentality. Religion is and has ever been a chief chapter of human life. Folsc religions are the only ones known to two thirds of the human race, even now, after nineteen centuries of Christianity ; and false religions are perhaps the most monstrous, complicated and thoroughTable of Contents CONTENTS; I PERSONAL HEMIXISCENCES; CHATTER I- general view of the subject- humbug universal- in RFXIdlON- in politics- in business- in science- in medicine- how it is to cease- the greatest humbug OF all 11; CHAPT3JR II- definition of the word humbug- warren op; london- gen in the hatter- gosling's blacking 18; CHAPTER III- monsieur mangin, the french humbug 29; CHAPTER IV- old grizzly adams 37; CHAPTER V-the golden pigeons-grizzly adams- german chemist-happy family- french naturalist 46; CHAPTER VI- the whale, the angel fish, and the golden; PrGEON 68; CHAPTER VH- pease's iioariiouxd candy- the dure rebellion- the philadelphia alderman 67; CHAPTER VIII- brandreth's pills - maonificent advertising- power of imagination 66; 11 THE SPI1UTUALISTS; CHAPTER IX- the davenport brothers, their rise and progress- spiritual rope-tying- music pl