Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by Robert Bogdan

Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

Robert Bogdan

336 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and oth...

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