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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Driftless Connecticut seriesPublisher: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780819573322 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2287.T475 L45 2013eb
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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