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1) Tom Thumb
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Shares the life of Charles Sherwood Stratton, describing his career, his travels around the world, his specially designed home, and his longtime friendship with the flamboyant P. T. Barnum.
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"On March 23, 1844, General Tom Thumb, just 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed low to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this meeting marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century, and the age of the freak was born. Bewitching all levels of society, it was a world of curiosities and astonishing spectacle―of dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siamese twins, and swaggering showmen. But the real...
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