9780143116868-014311686X-Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

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

ISBN-13: 9780143116868
ISBN-10: 014311686X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Martha A. Sandweiss
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 370 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780143116868
ISBN-10: 014311686X
Edition: Reprint
Author: Martha A. Sandweiss
Publication date: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 370 pages

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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (ISBN-13: 9780143116868 and ISBN-10: 014311686X), written by authors Martha A. Sandweiss, was published by Penguin Publishing Group in 2010. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African American (Cultural & Regional, United States, Historical, Scientists, Professionals & Academics, Historical Study & Educational Resources) books. You can easily purchase or rent Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.48.

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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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