Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594202001 (1594202001)
ASIN: 1594202001
Publish date: 2009-02-05
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
African American,
American History,
19th Century,
Biography Memoir,
Race
From the book description, “Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth century western history; a brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, best-selling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War. Secretary of State John Hay named King “the best and brightes...