Lives & Memoirs
Barnum
M. R. Werner · narrated by Moss
2026
16h 17m
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The definitive early life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the showman who invented American spectacle. M. R. Werner follows him from small-town hustler to master of the museum, the humbug and the greatest show on earth. A rollicking biography of the man who taught the modern world how to be entertained.
Inside this audiobook
24 chapters
- 1PREFACE10m
- 2BARNUM56m
- 3CHAPTER II GROWING PAINS50m
- 4CHAPTER III BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM1h 21m
- 5Chapter 57m
- 6CHAPTER IV TRAVELS WITH A MIDGET1h 2m
- 7Chapter 75m
- 8CHAPTER V HIS BROTHER’S KEEPER28m
- 9CHAPTER VI JENNY LIND1h 9m
- 10CHAPTER VII THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE IN THE AMERICAN WOODS1h 21m
- 11V1h 4m
- 12Chapter 128m
- 13CHAPTER VIII SUNDRIES AND AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY50m
- 14CHAPTER IX HUMBUGGED AND BANKRUPT26m
- 15CHAPTER X “THE ART OF MONEY-GETTING”1h 1m
- 16CHAPTER XI THE DWARFS’ DUEL, OR THE MARRIAGE OF THE MIDGETS52m
- 17CHAPTER XII THIS WORLD, AND THE NEXT1h 4m
- 18V22m
- 19CHAPTER XIII THE CIRCUS1h 5m
- 20IV58m
- 21Chapter 2115m
- 22CHAPTER XIV OLD AGE22m
- 23CHAPTER XV “NOT MY WILL, BUT THINE, BE DONE”7m
- 24BIBLIOGRAPHY16m
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