Passing Strange - by Martha A Sandweiss (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Clarence King--a late 19th-century celebrity, brilliant scientist, and explorer--hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: For 13 years he lived a double life as a prominent white geologist and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog</b> <p/><b> The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved </b> <p/> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><BR><br><br><BR><BR><br><br>RQTEST<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Print the Legend: Photography and the American West</i>, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Award, and <i>Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace</i>, and is the co-editor of the <i>Oxford History of the American West</i>.
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