Here is the fascinating though ofttimes shady history of the medicine show, an American show-business institution that dispensed hoopla and nostrums to a credulous clientele. When medicine shows died out, the nation lost one of its most rollicking entertainments.
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Brooks McNamara is a professor of performance studies at New York University.
The immensely entertaining history of the rise and fall of an American institution, the medicine show
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