Joel Benton: 5 books

A fantastic comprehensive biography of one of the greatest showmen of history: Phineas Taylor Barnum, most famous for his entertaining hoaxes and the disputed origin of the phrase 'There’s a sucker born every minute!'

Among the names of great Americans of the nineteenth century there is scarcely one more familiar to the world than that of the subject of this biography. There are those that stand for higher achievement in literature, science and art, in public life and in the business world. There is none that stands...

The earth has grown weary, for it has endured the passing of many dreadful ages. The exact year has slipped out of all knowledge. Several nuclear and biological wars have saturated the soil with toxic chemicals and radiation, causing all living things to suffer. The people remaining on this dismal planet...