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Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss

By:

Sandweiss, Martha A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press , 2009.Description: 370 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781594202001

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 KIN

LOC classification:

E185.625 .S255 2009

Summary: "Passing Strange" is a uniquely American biography of Clarence King, who hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family: for 13 years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	92 KIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		020217

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index.

"Passing Strange" is a uniquely American biography of Clarence King, who hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family: for 13 years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.

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