With a modern P.T. Barnum act, Donald Trump is tapping Americans’ anger to sell tickets to his own political circus

Pruessen, Ron (2016) With a modern P.T. Barnum act, Donald Trump is tapping Americans’ anger to sell tickets to his own political circus [Online resource]
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If the US election campaign currently has the air of a circus, Donald Trump can easily be seen as its P.T. Barnum. While the historical analogy is worth consideration, though, Ron Pruessen argues that Trump goes beyond (and beneath) the earlier Big Top impresario – and that the audience he is attracting is more than a gaggle of rubes and suckers.
Item Type Online resource
Departments LSE
Date Deposited 15 Jun 2016 14:57
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/66924

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