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The greatest show on earth: The birth of American popular culture For a hundred years, the American circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. During the heyday of the American circus from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling circuses performed for audiences of up to 12,000-14,000 per show, employed as many as 1,600 men and women, and crisscrossed the country on 20,000 miles of railroad in one season alone. The spectacle of death-defying daredevils, strapping super-heroes and scantily-clad starlets, fearless animal trainers, and startling freaks gripped the American imagination, outshining theater, vaudeville, comedy, and minstrel shows of its day, and ultimately paved the way for film and television to take root in the modern era. Long before the Beat generation made "on the road" expeditions popular, the circus personified the experience and offered many young Americans the dream of adventure, reinvention, excitement, and glamour.
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San Francisco-based circus historian Dominique Jando has written five books on the circus, was associate artistic director of New York's Big Apple Circus from 1983-2002, and director of the San Francisco School of Circus Arts from 2003-2004. He is also cofounder of Paris' world-famous circus arts competition, the Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain. Linda Granfield is a widely published award-winning author whose book Circus: An Album won six awards, including a place on the "Best of the Best" list by Chicago Public Library. Known for her clear and accessible writing, Granfield has penned many young adult publications as well as adult non-fiction books. She lives in Toronto, Canada. Robert F. Sabia is an independent circus historian and collector of circus memorabilia based in Williamsburg, Virginia. He has written extensively on the American circus and is currently the president and longest-serving member of the Circus Historical Society (CHS), the oldest society for the preservation of circus history in the United States. Noel Daniel is a freelance book editor and art consultant. After graduating from Princeton University, she studied in Berlin on a Fulbright Scholarship. She received a Masters in London and was the director of a photography art gallery before becoming a book editor. She has lived in Los Angeles since 2004.
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