| Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus Success Contributor(s): Apps, Jerry (Author), Dahlinger, Fred (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 087020355X ISBN-13: 9780870203558 Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: "Ringlingville USA" is the story of seven brothers who started with next to nothing and became the most famous circus family ever known. This is an extensively illustrated history with many never before published photos. This first history of the Ringling Circus in over fifty years recounts the hard work, business savvy, and entrepreneurship of the Ringling Brothers as they created the largest, most famous circus in the world. Author Jerry Apps presents a comprehensive history of the family business while at the same time recreating the sights and sounds of the circus at the turn of the century. Distributed for the Wisconsin Historical Society Press |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Circus - Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004007086 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 7.84" W x 8.98" (1.50 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Ringling Brothers began their business under the most modest of circumstances and through hard work, business savvy, and some luck created the largest, most famous circus in the world. They became wealthy men, one 50 cent admission ticket at a time. Ringlingville USA chronicles the brothers' journey from immigrant poverty to enduring glory as the kings of the circus world. The Ringlings and their circus were last studied in depth over four decades ago. Now, for the first time, the brothers' detailed financial records and personal correspondence are available to researchers. Jerry Apps weaves together that information with newspaper accounts, oral histories, colorful anecdotes, and stunning circus ephemera and photos, many never before been published, to illuminate the importance of the Ringlings' accomplishments. He describes how the Ringling Brothers confronted the challenges of taxation, war, economic pressure, changing technology, and personal sorrows to find their place in history. The brothers emerge as complex characters whose ambition, imagination, and pure hucksterism fueled the phenomenon that was the Ringling Brothers' Circus. |