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Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity
Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity
. By Eric D.
Lehman
. (Middleton, Conn
: Wesleyan University Press
, 2013
. Pp. xxii, 246. $28.95
.)
Benjamin McArthur
Benjamin McArthur
Benjamin McArthur teaches American history at Southern Adventist University. He is the author of The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre.
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Benjamin McArthur
Benjamin McArthur teaches American history at Southern Adventist University. He is the author of The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre.
Online ISSN: 1937-2213
Print ISSN: 0028-4866
© 2014 by The New England Quarterly
2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The New England Quarterly (2014) 87 (3): 540–543.
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Benjamin McArthur; Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P. T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity. The New England Quarterly 2014; 87 (3): 540–543. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_r_00398
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