Phineas Taylor Barnum

The exclamation point was entirely characteristic of Phineas Taylor Barnum; the taut, one-word epithet that preceded it, bearing its declaratory capital P, represented something new.

LAST CALL

The exclamation point was entirely characteristic of Phineas Taylor Barnum; the taut, one-word epithet that preceded it, bearing its declaratory capital P, represented something new.

LAST CALL

It was in New York, too, that Oscar met the great showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

It was in New York, too, that Oscar met the great showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

It was in New York, too, that Oscar met the great showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

It was in New York, too, that Oscar met the great showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

It was in New York, too, that Oscar met the great showman Phineas Taylor Barnum.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

Phineas Taylor Barnum tried his hand at publishing, owning a store and running a boarding house before opening a "freak" museum in New York City in 1842.

Can entrepreneurs hack it in politics?

An index of it was the letter he received from Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom Mark Twain had met at the Horace Greeley dinner in 1872.

Mark Twain

An index of it was the letter he received from Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom Mark Twain had met at the Horace Greeley dinner in 1872.

Mark Twain