{"product_id":"passing-strange-isbn-9780143116868","title":"Passing Strange","description":"\u003cb\u003eRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePassing Strange\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.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 \u003ci\u003ePrint the Legend: Photography and the American West\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Organization of American Historians'  Ray Allen Billington Award, and \u003ci\u003eLaura  Gilpin: An Enduring Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the co-editor of the \u003ci\u003eOxford History of the American West\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302912217317,"sku":"NP9780143116868","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143116868.jpg?v=1767734529","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/passing-strange-isbn-9780143116868","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}