P.T. Barnum: Exploiter or Uplifter?

For 146 years, the Barnum and Bailey Circus was known for being the greatest show on earth. None of it would have been possible if it were not for an ambitious entrepreneur named PT Barnum. While his life and career were sometimes the source of controversy, he truly was a brilliant businessman, and many of his ideas forever changed the entertainment industry as we know it today. →Subscribe for new videos every Monday and Thursday! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Visit our companion website for more: http://biographics.org Credits: Host - Simon Whistler Author - Shannon Quinn Producer - Samuel Avila Executive Producer - Shell Harris Business inquiries to biographics.email@gmail.com Other Biographics Videos: Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror https://youtu.be/KqfcpNrcGb0?list=PLy3kHTZWA8Oj9TlyNb3Kb3roh9AWM_nwv Winston Churchill Biography: In the Darkest Hour https://youtu.be/PrqkhCsLwDA?list=PLy3kHTZWA8Oj9TlyNb3Kb3roh9AWM_nwv Sources: https://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/circus-arts/p-t-barnum.htm https://books.google.com/books?id=XEQyDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PR1&dq=PT%20Barnum&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=PT%20Barnum&f=false http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/flashback-photo-p-t-barnum-turns-jail-sentence-pr-coup/ https://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Barnum-s-Ivy-Island-to-be-showcased-at-celebration-578735.php#photo-253388 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranistan http://www.bethellandtrust.org/propertyivyisland.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-30034409 http://www.ptbarnum.org/index2.html