Becoming Tom Thumb Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity / [Recurso electrónico] :
Eric D. Lehman.
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.)
- The driftless Connecticut series .
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.