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The Art of Money Getting: A Reader's Guide

P.T. Barnum's nineteenth-century advice on earning — showmanship and thrift.

P.T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting — lectures on labor, honesty, advertising, avoiding debt, persistence in business.

Context

Victorian self-help from master showman — entertaining and dated.

Themes

Enterprise, reputation, common sense economics before modern personal finance genre.

Historical curiosity with still-usable kernels on work ethic.

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