Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Sandweiss, Martha A.

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143116868)

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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Sandweiss, Martha A.

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

$18.00
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line by Sandweiss, Martha A.

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved

Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life-the first as the prominent white geologist and writer Clarence King, and a second as the black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada Copeland, only on his deathbed. In Passing Strange, noted historian Martha A. Sandweiss tells the dramatic, distinctively American tale of a family built along the fault lines of celebrity, class, and race- a story that spans the long century from Civil War to civil rights.

Author: Martha A. Sandweiss
ISBN-10: 014311686X
ISBN-13: 9780143116868
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2010
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.36w x 0.82d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/24/2010 pg. 20
By Martha A. Sandweiss
By Martha A. Sandweiss
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Martha A. Sandweiss is Professor of History at Princeton University. She began her career as a museum curator and taught for twenty years at Amherst College. She is the author of numerous works on western American history and the history of photography, including Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Award, and Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace, and is the co-editor of the Oxford History of the American West.

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