Passing Strange
Author: Sandweiss, Martha A.
ISBN: 9780143116868
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 26 Jan 2010
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog/b>br>br>b> The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved /b>br>br> 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 i>Passing Strange/i>, 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.
ISBN: 9780143116868
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 26 Jan 2010
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback / softback
b>Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog/b>br>br>b> The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved /b>br>br> 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 i>Passing Strange/i>, 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.
