Passing Strange

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

Martha A. Sandweiss

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Penguin USA
26 January 2010

Biography: general; Black & Asian studies

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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.

By: Martha A. Sandweiss
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 366g
ISBN: 9780143116868
ISBN 10: 014311686X
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 26 January 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.