Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity by Eric D. Lehman

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

Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books

Eric D. Lehman

276 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history informative slow-paced

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Winner of the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award, Victorian Society of America (2014) 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 histo...

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