Q&A with Les Standiford, author of ‘Battle for the Big Top’
Sep 29, 2021
2 minutes
Until movies and television, nothing kept Americans more rapt than when the circus came to town. “For over a century, mass popular entertainment in the United States was the circus,” says historian Les Standiford, “and it became a reflection of the American experience itself.” He spoke to Monitor correspondent Randy Dotinga about his book “Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the
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