In Conversation: On Battle for the Big Top & The Year of Dangerous Days

This event is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For tickets to this in-person event, please visit: MiamiBookFair.com.

In Battle for the Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus, Les Standiford brings to life a remarkable era when James Bailey, P.T. Barnum, and John Ringling vied for control of the profitable and influential American circus. In The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980, Nicholas Griffin tells the story of the rise and fall of one of America’s most popular destination cities – rife with police brutality, a drug epidemic, and a bulging refugee crisis.