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

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When P.T. Barnum met twenty-five-inch-tall Charles Stratton at a Bridgeport, Connecticut hotel in 1843, one of the most important partnerships in entertainment history was born. With Barnum's promotional skills and the miniature Stratton's comedic talents, they charmed a Who's Who of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lehman, Eric D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thumb, Tom, > 1838-1883.
Barnum, P. T. > (Phineas Taylor), > 1810-1891.
Entertainers.
Circus performers.
Dwarfs (Persons)
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Nains > États-Unis > Biographies.
Artistes du spectacle > États-Unis > Biographies.
Circus performers > United States > Biography.
Dwarfs (Persons) > United States > Biography.
Entertainers > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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