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.
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