Author
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) started as a clerk in a village shop, in 1841 bought the American Museum in New York and became famous as an impresario of spectacles. Later he sat in the legislature of Connecticut, and in 1871 he founded a huge travelling show.
Books in Livria
- Struggles and Triumphs
How do you start a business without money and get back up after ruin? Phineas Barnum tells his own life: a museum bought on credit, a little “general” in the queen's palace, a tour by a singer he had never heard, a…