Dan Rice The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of

Name: Dan Rice The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of
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ISBN: 9781586482398

ISBN-10: 1586482394

ISBN-13: 9781586482398

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Carlyon

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Dan Rice, alone in the world as a boy, had tried whatever came to hand. He was a pig presenter, strongman, lecturer, comic singer, and blackface performer. Then he joined the glittering world of circus and quickly rose to prominence as a talking clown, tossing out quips, quoting Shakespeare, singing about bloomers, and feuding with Horace Greeley. He named his own circus "Dan Rice's Great Show" and labeled himself the Great American Humorist. The spitting image of Uncle Sam in a striped suit, top hat, and goatee, Rice spoke on issues of the day till he became one of the most famous men in America, probably seen by more people than any anyone else at the time. That fame propelled him to…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 5/14/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue



A Perfect Rush: 1823--1847



Home, Sweet Home



Go West, Young Man



Learned Pig, Learning Dan



"Circus"



Clown to the Ring



One-Horse Show: 1848--1852



Spalding and Spicy Rice



Reading, Not Acting Clown



Foreclosure



One-Horse Story



Like a Phoenix



Alternating Ringmasters



Curses, Foiled Again!



The Great American Humorist: 1853--1856



The Barnum of New Orleans



See the Elephant



People's Choice



$100,000



Bearded in His Den



Dan Rice's Great Show



Servis Renderd



Hey, Rube!



"Something Higher": 1856--1860



Cabinet of Curiosities



Genius for Fun



Excelsior!



Daniel McLaren



Grammatical Assassin?



The End?



Ring Cycle



The People's Candidate: 1860--1867



House Divided



Southern Sympathy



Union, Alias Peace



A Muted Voice



"Colonel" Rice



Rice for President



Reverse of Success: 1868--1883



Folly to Fight



Paris Pavilion



Is Life Worth Living?



Old Uncle Dan: 1884--1900



More Fun Than You Can Count



Snake Oil



Honest Abe's Uncle Sam


Notes


Bibliography


Permissions


Index