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Tom Thumb

Amazon.com Price:  $4.00 (as of 05/05/2019 01:40 PST- Details)

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When Charles S. Stratton used to be born in 1838, he used to be a big baby, perfect in each and every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he used to be just over two feet tall and weighed only fifteen pounds—the very same size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It used to be then that the notorious showman P.T. Barnum dubbed him Tom Thumb and put him on display, touring him around the globe as a curiosity.
     A natural performer, Charley became enormously popular and rich, more so than every other performer before him. On this spirited biography—the first on its subject—George Sullivan recounts the fascinating adventures of Tom Thumb, and raises challenging questions about what constitutes exploitation—both within the 19th century and nowadays.


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