{"product_id":"passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-paperback","title":"Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMartha A. Sandweiss\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePassing Strange\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartha 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 \u003ci\u003ePrint the Legend: Photography and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Award, and \u003ci\u003eLaura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eOxford History of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.82 x 8.4 x 5.36 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 26, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52087580229933,"sku":"9780143116868","price":26.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-paperback-1216457.webp?v=1780163416","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}