Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across
[Passing Strange: A Gilded]

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

Contributor(s): Sandweiss, Martha A (Author)

ISBN: 014311686X EAN: 9780143116868

Publisher: Penguin Books (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 17.00 US

Binding: Paperback - Other Formats

Pub Date: January 26, 2010

Annotation: 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. Show Less