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Book Review

The Arts of Deception: Playing with Fraud in the Age of Barnum. By James W. Cook. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xviii, 314 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-674-00457-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-674-00591-0.)

The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America. By Benjamin Reiss. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xii, 267 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-674-00636-4.)

These two books are much alike: Both are thick descriptive cultural histories of Barnumesque humbug and even share a common publisher and origins as University of California, Berkeley, dissertations. Still, they are not at all redundant and are worth reading together. . . .

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