Dan Rice had many lives. He was a pig presenter, a strongman, a
lecturer, and a comic singer, all before joining the dazzling world
of the circus. In 1855, he created Dan Rice's Great Show. Labeling
himself the "Great American humourist," he toured the country and
spoke out on issues of the day before large crowds. Swept up in a
new cult of celebrity, he rose to become one of the most famous,and
infamous,men in America. He even ran for president. So why have so
few people ever heard of Dan Rice? Propelled by an urge toward
"refinement," American amusements began to stratify in the mid-19th
century. The raucous antebellum jumble of performers, audiences,
and forms split along a new performance hierarchy of high and low.
Circus, though still vastly popular, became seen as lowbrow. In
that changed world, Rice's aggressive humour and robust connection
with a noisy, participatory audience became seen as crude,and
worse,a civic threat. David Carlyon weaves a remarkably rich
portrait of turbulent times that raised one ambitious, creative man
to glorious heights and then, embarrassed by its enthusiasm, buried
him in sentimentality and finally oblivion.
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