{"product_id":"passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-9780143116868","title":"Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha A. Sandweiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.36w x 0.82d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143116868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663523102857,"sku":"9780143116868","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_235e32fb-4c4a-4cd6-a1e4-623ee111d0a4.jpg?v=1784607509","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-9780143116868","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}