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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lehman, Eric D.
Imprint:	Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The driftless Connecticut series Driftless Connecticut series.
Subject:	Thumb, Tom, -- 1838-1883. Barnum, P. T. -- (Phineas Taylor), -- 1810-1891. Barnum, P. T. -- (Phineas Taylor), -- 1810-1891. Thumb, Tom, -- 1838-1883. Entertainers -- United States -- Biography. Dwarfs (Persons) -- United States -- Biography. Circus performers -- United States -- Biography. Dwarfs (Persons) Circus performers. Entertainers. United States. Electronic books. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209920

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ISBN:	0819573329 9780819573322 9780819573315 0819573310
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	The definitive biography of an iconic American entertainer.
Other form:	Print version: 9780819573315 0819573310

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Notes
A Note on Sources
Selected Bibliography
Index