The Greatest Showman: The Story of PT Barnum
Our American Stories
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4.3 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, in a big and memorable way PT Barnum changed how all Americans lived. He gave them something to talk about and dream about. Our movies, television, and whole entertainment-saturated culture is what it is today because of what he started. He seems almost a fable now; but then… he did in his own day too. Here to tell the story is the Executive Director of the PT Barnum Museum, Kathy Maher.
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