Passing Strange: A Gilded Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
by Sandweiss, Martha A
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 014311686X
- ISBN 13
- 9780143116868
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Synopsis
Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog 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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2336862
- Title
- Passing Strange: A Gilded Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
- Author
- Sandweiss, Martha A
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 014311686X
- ISBN 13
- 9780143116868
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8x5x0
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY ROMANCE SAN FRANCISCO AMERICAN WEST HISTORY CULTURAL STUDIES BLACK HISTORY AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES ASIAN STUDIES RACE RACISM SOCIOLOGY
- X weight
- 13 oz
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