Passing Strange : A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line Paperback - 2010
by Sandweiss, Martha A
- Used
Clarence King--a late 19th-century celebrity, brilliant scientist, and explorer--hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: For 13 years he lived a double life as a prominent white geologist and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker.
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- Title Passing Strange : A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
- Author Sandweiss, Martha A
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, NEW YORK
- Date 2010-01-26
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4566569-6
- ISBN 9780143116868 / 014311686X
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.36 x 0.82 in (21.34 x 13.61 x 2.08 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008034886
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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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- New York Times Book Review, 01/24/2010, Page 20
