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How the 'Greatest Showman' paved the way for Donald Trump

  • Written by Michael Greenwald, Emeritus Professor of Theater, Texas A&M University
image'I don’t care what they say about me,' P.T. Barnum once said, 'as long as they spell my name correctly.'Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com

Historian James Cook, in his 2001 book “The Arts of Deception,” points to July 1835 as “the birth date of modern American popular culture.”

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