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

Author/creator Lehman, Eric D.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoMiddletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxxi, 246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series The driftless Connecticut series
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references ( pages 241-242) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013015056
ISBN9780819573315 (cloth : alk. paper)

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