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Becoming Tom Thumb : Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the dawn of American celebrity / Eric D. Lehman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lehman, Eric D., author.
- Series:
- Driftless Connecticut series.
- Driftless Connecticut series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Circus performers.
- Thumb, Tom, 1838-1883.
- Thumb, Tom.
- Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891.
- Barnum, P. T.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The definitive biography of an iconic American entertainer
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8195-7332-9
- OCLC:
- 867741478
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