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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Passing Strange A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Author: Martha A Sandweiss
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.
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ISBN-13: 9781400141517
ISBN-10: 1400141516
Publication Date: 2/1/2009
Edition: Unabridged Library E
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Publisher: Tantor Media
Book Type: Audio CD
Other Versions: Paperback, Hardcover
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More like reading a school history text rather than an enthralling story - which it could have been without the boring stuff which was in the entire book (part that I read). I even skipped ahead hoping it would get better - no such luck...


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