Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Playing the Palace -- The Boy from Bridgeport -- At the American Museum -- Prince Charles the First -- Buttons, Bullfights, and Balloons -- Hop O' My Thumb -- Heart of a Child -- On the New York Stage -- The Measure of a Man -- The Wedding of the Year -- The Long and Short of It -- A Very Strange Honeymoon -- Tom Thumb's America -- Around the World -- At the Helm -- A Marriage and Two Funerals -- The Great Fire -- At Mountain Grove -- Notes -- A Note on Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.