Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional WrestlingBy JonLangmead, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2023. 296 pp. $36.95 (bk). ISBN: 978‐0826222992.
Authors
Jessica Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9415-470X)
Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional WrestlingBy JonLangmead, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2023. 296 pp. $36.95 (bk). ISBN: 978‐0826222992.
Jessica Williams
Journal
The Journal of Popular Culture
Topics
Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
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Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional WrestlingBy JonLangmead, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2023. 296 pp. $36.95 (bk). ISBN: 978‐0826222992.
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Ballyhoo!: The Roughhousers, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional WrestlingBy JonLangmead, Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2023. 296 pp. $36.95 (bk). ISBN: 978‐0826222992. — Jessica Williams · The Journal of Popular Culture (2025) | TGRS Research Map | TGRS