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X-WR-CALDESC:Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Acros
 s the Color Line by Martha A. Sandweiss (384\npages)\n\nClarence King is a
  hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty
  conversationalist\, bestselling\nauthor and architect of the great survey
 s that mapped the West after the Civil War\, King was named by John Hay “t
 he\nbest and brightest of his generation.” But King hid a secret from his 
 Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport:\nfor thirteen years he
  lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer\, geologist\, and wr
 iter Clarence King and as a\nblack Pullman porter and steelworker named Ja
 mes Todd. The fair\, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed\nacros
 s the color line\, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife\, Ada
  King\, only on his deathbed.\nNoted historian of the American West Martha
  Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard
  to\nconceal from the public eye. She reveals the complexity of a man who 
 while publicly espousing a personal dream of a\nuniquely American “race\,”
  an amalgam of white and black\, hid his love for his wife and their five 
 biracial children. Passing\nStrange tells the dramatic tale of a family bu
 ilt along the fault lines of celebrity\, class\, and race—from the “Todds”
 \nwedding in 1888 to the 1964 death of Ada\, one of the last surviving Ame
 ricans born into slavery\, to finally the legacy\ninherited by Clarence Ki
 ng’s granddaughter\, who married a white man and adopted a white child in 
 order to spare her\nfamily the legacies of racism.\n\nA remarkable feat of
  research and reporting spanning the Civil War to the civil rights era\, P
 assing Strange tells a uniquely\nAmerican story of self-invention\, love\,
  deception\, and race
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DESCRIPTION:Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across
  the Color Line by Martha A. Sandweiss (384\npages)\n\nClarence King is a 
 hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty 
 conversationalist\, bestselling\nauthor and architect of the great surveys
  that mapped the West after the Civil War\, King was named by John Hay “th
 e\nbest and brightest of his generation.” But King hid a secret from his G
 ilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport:\nfor thirteen years he 
 lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer\, geologist\, and wri
 ter Clarence King and as a\nblack Pullman porter and steelworker named Jam
 es Todd. The fair\, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed\nacross
  the color line\, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife\, Ada 
 King\, only on his deathbed.\nNoted historian of the American West Martha 
 Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life that King tried so hard 
 to\nconceal from the public eye. She reveals the complexity of a man who w
 hile publicly espousing a personal dream of a\nuniquely American “race\,” 
 an amalgam of white and black\, hid his love for his wife and their five b
 iracial children. Passing\nStrange tells the dramatic tale of a family bui
 lt along the fault lines of celebrity\, class\, and race—from the “Todds”
 \nwedding in 1888 to the 1964 death of Ada\, one of the last surviving Ame
 ricans born into slavery\, to finally the legacy\ninherited by Clarence Ki
 ng’s granddaughter\, who married a white man and adopted a white child in 
 order to spare her\nfamily the legacies of racism.\n\nA remarkable feat of
  research and reporting spanning the Civil War to the civil rights era\, P
 assing Strange tells a uniquely\nAmerican story of self-invention\, love\,
  deception\, and race
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SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love an
 d Deception Across the Color Line by Martha A. Sandweiss
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