{"product_id":"passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-014311686x","title":"Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 014311686X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sandweiss, Martha A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin BlogThe secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he lovedClarence 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51666035441952,"sku":"NEW014311686X","price":17.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71gGv3swQnL.jpg?v=1778919423","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/passing-strange-a-gilded-age-tale-of-love-and-deception-across-the-color-line-014311686x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}