Becoming Tom Thumb : : Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / / Eric D. Lehman.

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Superior document:The driftless Connecticut series
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Place / Publishing House:Middletown, Connecticut : : Wesleyan University Press,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Driftless Connecticut series.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (273 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: playing The palace
  • The boy from Bridgeport
  • At the American Museum
  • Prince Charles the First
  • Buttons, bullfights, and balloons
  • Hop o' my thumb
  • Heart of a child
  • On the New York stage
  • The measure of a man
  • The wedding of the year
  • The long and short of it
  • A very strange honeymoon
  • Tom Thumb's America
  • Around the world
  • At the helm
  • A marriage and two funerals
  • The great fire
  • At Mountain Grove.