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Tom Thumb
The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature
Author: George Sullivan
Narrator: Barry Press
Unabridged: 3 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: AudioGO
Published: 10/01/2012
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Historical
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.