The editors have lavishly illustrated this brand-new, oversized edition. The ultimate showman and master of the humbug, Phineas Taylor Barnum has collected in this volume a clown car stuffed with delightful anecdotes, yarns, and tales about the greatest humbugs and hoaxes ever perpetrated. Here you will meet impostors, charlatans, and deceptors - all pulling off a scam of one sort or another. Sometimes they're driven by greed, other times by the sport of pulling it off. This book offers a parade of history's con men and conjurers, religious nuts and swindlers, complete with Barnum's...

"I was a farmhand, a merchant, a clerk, a boss, a theater director and a bank director; I lived in prisons and palaces, I knew poverty and abundance, I've traveled extensively on two continents, I've met all kinds of people and seen the human character in all its guises, and time and again I have been in the greatest danger. Amidst such a diversity of events, I had to undergo difficult times, but I'm definitely not complaining, and I believe that my life was a happy one, because I always saw the positive side of things." - P.T. Barnum Americans have loved traveling circuses for generations,...

This book, published in 1880, provides valuable lessons on how to get and keep Money, building a wealth future for oneself and his/her Family. We all know PT Barnum for this circus. In fact, Phineas Taylor Barnum (born in Bethel, Connecticut, USA, on July 5, 1810) is best known by being one of the founders of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, which, in 1919, merged with the Ringling Brothers Circus, creating the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, a company that markets itself as The Greatest Show on Earth. He was a businessman active in the sector of entertainment, but he has been also an...

Barnum's 1866 guide to scams of the day. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this historical reprint you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any history buff.

Golden Rules For Making Money by P.T.Barnum is a detailed and wonderful insight from a successful and intelligent American businessman into money-making and business. This book will give you everything you need to know about making money, maintaining integrity, creating a successful business and reaching your goals. The knowledge and wisdom in this book will set you up for success and help you reach your goals. This is the updated 2015 edition with illustrations and an introduction by Stuart Hampton, an entrepreneur and successful businessman. Any profits generated from the sale of this book...

A little reflection will show that humbug is an astonishingly wide-spread phenomenon-in fact almost universal. And this is true, although we 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.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success open, so many vocations which are not crowded, that any person of either sex who is willing, at least for the time being, to engage in any respectable occupation that offers, may find lucrative employment.