{"product_id":"9780143116868","title":"Passing Strange : A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line","description":"\u003cp\u003eRead Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 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":"Penguin USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49716380270840,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":52.87,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9780143116868-1.jpg?v=1783578213","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/products\/9780143116868","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}