@article{333816,
      recid = {333816},
      author = {Sandweiss, Martha A.},
      title = {Passing strange : a Gilded Age tale of love and deception  across the color line /},
      publisher = {Penguin Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {370 p., [8] p. of plates :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western  history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist,  bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that  mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from  his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for  thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated  white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and  steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved, the  fair-haired, blue-eyed King passed as a Negro, revealing  his secret to his wife Ada only on his deathbed. Historian  Martha Sandweiss is the first writer to uncover the life  that King tried so hard to conceal. She reveals the  complexity of a man who, while publicly espousing a  personal dream of a uniquely American amalgam of white and  black, hid his love for his wife and their five biracial  children.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/333816},
}