Description: Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line Description: Product Description 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. Review RQTEST About the Author 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. Payment All payments are accepted through PayPal. Shipping: All shipping is free for the continental United States. Standard FREE shipping takes between 3-5 business days Returns In the event that you would like to return your purchase, we allow returns that are processed within 30 days of receiving your order. Please contact us for a return authorization and the return shipping address.
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Edition: Illustrated
Book Title: Passing Strange : a Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Item Length: 8.3in
Item Height: 0.9in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: Martha A. Sandweiss
Format: United Kingdom-B Format Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / 19th Century, General, Science & Technology, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2010
Genre: Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
