Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Book Details
Author(s)
Martha A. Sandweiss
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN / ASIN
014311686X
ISBN-13
9780143116868
Availability
Habituellement expédié sous 24 h
Sales Rank
#1,666,797
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
Passing Strange 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. Full description
