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Rent Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
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Format: Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage
Retail Price: $24.00
Pages: 384
Synopsis
Noted historian Martha A. Sandweiss tells the uniquely American story of Clarence King, a man who hid from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family the fact that he lived a double life---as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.