DAN RICE The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of DAVID CARLYON

"Rice has turned out to be the most modern of figures, a man who embodied many of today's obsessions: the fascination with celebrity, the blurring of high brow and low, the appropriation of African-American culture by whites, the intersection of popular culture and politics."—New York Times

"It is a great story that Carlyon has chosen to tell...The writing is lively...and the stories are fresh...Dan Rice helps recover not only popular entertainment itself, but the whole of 19th Century show business."—Chicago Tribune

"Not just a biography of a unique and colorful man, but a portrait of a fragile America being played out on the stage of Dan Rice's Great Show."—Providence Journal