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Sandweiss, Martha A.

 
9781594202001: Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
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ISBN 10 : 1594202001 ISBN 13 : 9781594202001
Editeur : Penguin Pr, 2009

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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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Martha 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 Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Ray Allen Billington Award, and Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace, and is the co-editor of the Oxford History of the American West.

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Éditeur
Penguin Pr
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1594202001
ISBN 13 
9781594202001
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
370
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780143116868: Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

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ISBN 10 :  014311686X ISBN 13 :  9780143116868
Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2010
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