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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
de Sandweiss, Martha A
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- ISBN 10
- 1594202001
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202001
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Sinopsis
Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog 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.
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- Librería
- More Than Words Inc.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- BOS-T-11f-01266
- Título
- Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
- Autor
- Sandweiss, Martha A
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 1594202001
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202001
- Editorial
- Penguin Press HC, The
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2009-02
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