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The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America Benjamin Reiss
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America
Benjamin Reiss
Reiss uses P. T. Barnum's Joice Heth hoax to examine the race relations in the antebellum North. Barnum's first exhibit as a showman, Heth was an enslaved woman said to be the 161-year-old former nurse of the infant George Washington. The newly emerging commercial press turned her act into one of the first media spectacles in American history.
288 pages, 12 halftones
| Mediji | Grāmatas Paperback Book (Grāmata ar mīksto vāku un līmēto muguru) |
| Izlaists | 2010. gada 15. marts |
| ISBN13 | 9780674055643 |
| Izdevēji | Harvard University Press |
| Lapas | 288 |
| Izmēri | 157 × 233 × 23 mm · 442 g |
| Valoda | Angļu |
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