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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Sandweiss, Martha A.     Subjects     King, Clarence, 1842-1901.     King, Ada, 1860-1964.     King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage.     Blacks -- Race identity -- Case studies.     Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.     Married people -- United States -- Case studies.     Deception -- United States -- Case studies.     Women, Black -- Biography.     United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.     New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sandweiss, Martha A.       by title:      Passing strange : a ...       by call number:      305.896 S221p     Search the Web     Sandweiss, Martha A.     King, Clarence, 1842-1901.     King, Ada, 1860-1964.     King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage.     Blacks -- Race identity -- Case studies.     Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.     Married people -- United States -- Case studies.     Deception -- United States -- Case studies.     Women, Black -- Biography.     United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.     New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.       MARC Display

Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line / Martha A. Sandweiss. by Sandweiss, Martha A. Penguin Press, 2009. Call #: 305.896 S221p Subjects King, Clarence, 1842-1901.   King, Ada, 1860-1964.   King, Clarence, 1842-1901 -- Marriage.   Blacks -- Race identity -- Case studies.   Passing (Identity) -- United States -- Case studies.   Married people -- United States -- Case studies.   Deception -- United States -- Case studies.   Women, Black -- Biography.   United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.   New York (N.Y.) -- Biography. URL856 Publisher description ISBN:  9781594202001 1594202001 Description:  370 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-358) and index. Contents:  An invented life -- Clarence King and Ada Copeland -- Becoming Clarence King -- King of the West -- Becoming Ada Copeland -- King of the city -- James and Ada Todd -- New beginnings -- Family lives -- Breakdowns -- Endings -- Ada King -- On her own -- The trial -- Secrets. Summary:  Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved, the fair-haired, blue-eyed King passed as a Negro, revealing his secret to his wife Ada only on his deathbed. Historian Martha Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard to conceal. She reveals the complexity of a man who, while publicly espousing a personal dream of a uniquely American amalgam of white and black, hid his love for his wife and their five biracial children.--From publisher description. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 305.896 S221p Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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