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

English

ISBN: 014311686X

EAN: 9780143116868

Category: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies/Psychology / General/Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations/Biography & Autobiography / General/Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology/Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family/Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/31/2010

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: 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.

Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  National Book Critics Circle Awards – null 

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

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.5 inches

Weight: 11.85 oz

Pages: 384