Tom Thumb Lib/E

Tom Thumb Lib/E The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature

Audio CD (01 Oct 2012)

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Publisher's Synopsis

When Charles S. Stratton was born in 1838, he seemed perfect in every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed fifteen pounds-the exact size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It was then that P. T. Barnum persuaded Charley's family to allow him to exhibit their son in his museum and tour him around the world as a curiosity. Tom Thumb, as Barnum dubbed him, was a natural performer. He became enormously popular and wealthy, more so than any other performer before him, in large part due to the marketing genius of Barnum.

In this spirited biography-the first on its subject-George Sullivan recounts the fascinating adventures of the real Tom Thumb, and also raises challenging questions about what constitutes exploitation-both in the nineteenth century and today.

Book information

ISBN: 9781935430902
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Pub date:
Language: English
Weight: 226g
Height: 165mm
Width: 177mm
Spine width: 25mm