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Rent Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
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Narrator: Lorna Raver
Format: Unabridged-MP3, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: Feb 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Cultural Heritage
Retail Price: $24.99
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.