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Bruce Feiler's unforgettable year as a clown will forever change your view of one of the world's oldest art forms and . Praise for UNDER THE BIG TOP A stunning collective portrait of an ingrown community with its own history, hierarchy, and traditions.

Bruce Feiler's unforgettable year as a clown will forever change your view of one of the world's oldest art forms and remind you of how dreams can go horribly wrong - and then miraculously come true. he forces circus goers to see the familiar spectacles anew. A colorful, sometimes unsettling, pageant of circus life.

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Big tops have not always been part of the circus. The first American circus, organized by Scottish equestrian John Bill Ricketts, opened on April 3, 1793, at an outdoor amphitheater at Twelfth and Market Streets in Philadelphia

Big tops have not always been part of the circus. The first American circus, organized by Scottish equestrian John Bill Ricketts, opened on April 3, 1793, at an outdoor amphitheater at Twelfth and Market Streets in Philadelphia. Within three weeks, the show, which presented acrobatics on horseback, clowning, and rope walking in a forty-two-foot circus ring, was seen by President Washington; four years later Washington actually sold the white charger he had ridden in the Revolutionary War to Ricketts.

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Bruce Feiler (born October 25, 1964) is an American writer and television personality. Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus (1995). He is the author of 15 books, including six consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers. Among the best-sellers is Council of Dads, a book that describes how he responded to a diagnosis of a rare cancer by asking a group of men to be present in the lives of his young daughters. The book was the subject of a TED Talk and inspired NBC drama series Council of Dads. His latest work explores the power of life stories. Looking for Class: Days and Nights at Oxford and Cambridge (1993).

Under the Big Top: My Season With the Circus. Bruce Feiler set out on a personal quest to better understand our common patriarch. Traveling in war zones, climbing through caves and ancient shrines, and sitting down with the world's leading religious minds, Feiler uncovers fascinating, little-known details of the man who defines faith for half the world. Both immediate and timeless, Abraham is a powerful, universal story, the first-ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner.

Under the Big Top: A Season with the Circus. Both a great American adventure and a rare entry into asheltered world, Under the Big Top describes one man's pursuit of every child's fantasy: running away to join the circus. Bruce Feiler's unforgettable year as a clown will forever change your view of one of the world's oldest art forms and remind you of how dreams can go horribly wrong - and then miraculously come true. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.

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Once reacquainted with the circus, I set out to find the perfect show to join. We were looking through books of famous clowns for inspiration in designing my face. I had a lot to do before opening day on March 25: find a camper; learn to fall; tell my mother. From a friend, I learned of an organization called Circus Fans of America (its motto: The Greatest Hobby on Earth ); from its treasurer, Irvin Mohler, I learned of the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin (the original home of the Ringlings); and from its librarian, Fred Dahlinger, I received a list of every circus in America, which was a. surprising four pages long and contained 117 entries.