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Martha A. Sandweiss
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line |
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Paperback |
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384 |
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2010-01-26 |
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B003VWC4US |
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Penguin (Non-Classics) |
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0.65 pounds |
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5.4 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches |
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Reprint |
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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.
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