Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, (Hardcover) by Michael Daly

from Citizenjoyce

I'd read before that Thomas Edison had electrocuted an elephant, so I thought there would be some bad parts in the book, but I wasn't prepared for the unremitting details of animal torture. Eviidently when you're talking about elephants in circuses, that's what you're going to be talking about. I...

from Sullywriter

An engrossing book that brings vividly to life a fascinating era of American history, science, and entertainment populated with absorbing portraits of intriguing figures like Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and P.T. Barnum, and how their lives intersected. The book is also revealing of typica...

from whitreidtan

Have you ever looked into an elephant's eyes? They are beautiful, fringed with lovely thick eyelashes. And they seem so very gentle and wise. So why on earth would anyone ever consider electrocuting an elephant? While this would be almost unfathomable today it wasn't once and the history of eleph...