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Irving Wallace
"Revealing! An encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters do between the sheets."—TIME
"More astonishing and outrageous than most of us would even imagine."—Forecast
"Entirely fascinating. . . . Hugely entertaining."—Auberon Waugh, Inquiry
"Something for everyone . . . eminent flashers, fetishists, flagellants, plain old down home fornicators, and goings-on galore."—Cosmopolitan
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...Besides the towering figure of Barnum himself, this book's cast of characters includes not only Jenny Lind, Jumbo, and Tom Thumb, but also such ill-assorted figures a Chang and Eng (the original Siamese Twins), Queen Victoria herself, captive white whales, "The Feejee Mermaid," and Abraham Lincoln. This is far and away the best biography of one of the most fascinating of all Americans.