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

Name: Passing Strange A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
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ISBN: 9780143116868

ISBN-10: 014311686X

ISBN-13: 9780143116868

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Authors: Martha A. Sandweiss

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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…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/26/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.54" wide x 8.34" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.682

Martha A. Sandweiss is professor of history and American studies at Amherst College.



Prologue: An Invented Life



Clarence King and Ada Copeland



Becoming Clarence King



King of the West



Becoming Ada Copeland



King of the City



James and Ada Todd



New Beginnings



Family Lives



Breakdowns



Endings



Ada King



On Her Own



The Trial


Epilogue: Secrets


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index