P. T. Barnum

I maintain that Jersey Shore is just as much of a "freak show" not the phrase I would choose, but the phrase that has been in common usage for over a century as anything P. T. Barnum put together.

Melanie Benjamin: Keeping Up With The Thumbs On Jersey Shore Melanie Benjamin 2011

And while I don't know the exact figures, she and the General made a fortune off their very public wedding, managed by their great friend P. T. Barnum.

Melanie Benjamin: Keeping Up With The Thumbs On Jersey Shore Melanie Benjamin 2011

She smiled, but her eyes were telling me that she thought maybe I was P. T. Barnum after all.

The Mob and Me John Partington 2010

A. H. Saxon, P. T. Barnum New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, is the best single biography.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

Think P. T. Barnum, not Barney the purple dinosaur.

The Viognier Vendetta Ellen Crosby 2010

A. H. Saxon, P. T. Barnum New York: Columbia University Press, 1989, is the best single biography.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

The loss of historic sites like the Tom Thumb house, in Bridgeport just about the only place on the Post Road that lionizes P. T. Barnum above George Washington; the McMansions, or “houses on steroids,” constructed in the residential sections of the road that ran through Fairfield; the peremptory division that came from running Interstate 95 through town centers and neighborhoods; the endless refrain of retail chains.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

As people say, he was kind of hammy, but I think it was showmanship; I think it was like P. T. Barnum and the circus, you know?

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

The loss of historic sites like the Tom Thumb house, in Bridgeport just about the only place on the Post Road that lionizes P. T. Barnum above George Washington; the McMansions, or “houses on steroids,” constructed in the residential sections of the road that ran through Fairfield; the peremptory division that came from running Interstate 95 through town centers and neighborhoods; the endless refrain of retail chains.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

The loss of historic sites like the Tom Thumb house, in Bridgeport just about the only place on the Post Road that lionizes P. T. Barnum above George Washington; the McMansions, or “houses on steroids,” constructed in the residential sections of the road that ran through Fairfield; the peremptory division that came from running Interstate 95 through town centers and neighborhoods; the endless refrain of retail chains.

The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010