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Freak Show Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
by [Bogdan, Robert]
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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 other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitive - the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America's most popular forms of entertainment.
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- University of Chicago Pre Brand
- May 15, 1990 Pub Date:
- 9780226063126 ISBN-13:
- 0226063127 ISBN-10:
- 336.0 pages Paperback
- English Language
- 8.9 in * 0.9 in * 5.9 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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