Clarence King

Reviews: “Passing Strange” and “Blindspot” (International Herald Tribune) (iht.com) - February 09, 2009
Martha A. Sandweiss, the deductive historian, explores not only how the 19th-century explorer and scientist Clarence King reinvented himself but also why that reinvention was so singularly American. J…

Lecturer reveals man’s other life (San Gabriel Valley Tribune) (sgvtribune.com) - February 09, 2009
SAN MARINO – The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, presents “Passing Strange: A Guilded-Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line,” a lecture, at…

Sometimes One Man Can Live Two Lives (New York Times) (nytimes.com) - February 05, 2009
The true story of Clarence King, a 19th-century scientist from the highest reaches of New England society, who lived a second life passing as a black man, married to a black woman.

Two Lives (Columbia Journalism Review) (cjr.org) - February 04, 2009
Passing Strange is one of those books with precisely the right title. It is indeed a story about passing, in every sense of the term, and historian Martha Sandweiss tells it with a scholar’s rigor and…

The Early Word: New Books for the Week of February 2, 2009 (Blogcritics.org) (blogcritics.org) - February 02, 2009
Torre and the Yankees, A Gilded Age Secret, Home Education, Lincoln, the Romanovs, Koontz’s Frankenstein, Patterson, Niven & Pournelle… It’s a mystery to me… also a fantasy, Sci Fi, romance – and…

Flood insurance rates may recede (The Monroe Evening News) (monroenews.com) - January 19, 2009
Frenchtown Township, with its many beach areas and one of the highest number of residents with flood insurance in Michigan, could see its insurance rates drop by becoming a member of a community ratin…

Penguin Group (USA) Weekly Update – 2/9 | Penguin Blog (USA … (us.penguingroup.com) - February 09, 2009
Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western American history. A brilliant scientist, bestselling author, and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King was…

Great New Books that Are a Must Read: Love and Deception Across … (newgreatbooks.blogspot.com) - February 09, 2009
Her great accomplishment is to have explored not only how the 19th-century explorer and scientist Clarence King reinvented himself but also why that reinvention was so singularly American. Best of all…

Martha A. Sandweiss Reads from Passing Strange: Vanity Fair … (vanityfair.com) - February 06, 2009
For decades, Clarence King lived a charming, public life. The notable white geologist and writer, who had helped map the American West, divided his time between White House dinners and social gatherin…

Clarence Thomas OBJECTS To Being Called a House Nigga! (diaryofahollywoodstreetking.com) - February 06, 2009
Clarance Thomas is on the way to his home away from home. He is Joining Michael Steele, Larry Elder, America’s favorite house negro Travis Smiley, and General Colin Powell. Clarance is one of the bigg…

‘Passing Strange’ the dual life of Clarence King (whatisee.posterous.com) - February 05, 2009
Passing Strange offers ample evidence of the way Clarence fetishized dark-skinned women as the warm, exotic alternative to the white women he met in polite society. He loathed those white women. (To s…

Mobipocket eBook: “Passing Strange” by MARTHA A. SANDWEISS (mobipocket.com) - February 04, 2009
But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and a…

The Secret Life of Geologist Clarence King; Lecture at the … (californiastudiesblog.wordpress.com) - February 04, 2009
Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of American Studies and History, Amherst College, shares her new findings about the secret life of the late nineteenth-century Western explorer Clarence King, who was th…

Amherst College Prof Martha Sandweiss Publishes Passing Strange … (amherst.edu) - February 02, 2009
But marrying Ada Copeland, a former slave, publicly as the white man known as Clarence King would have created a scandal and destroyed his career. So King falsely presented himself as a black man in o…

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Diane Rehm Show has author of bk re: white-bred explorer Clarence King who also lived as black – w/wife & kids - February 11, 2009

Martha Sandweiss: “Passing Strange” (Penguin): Clarence King was a famed explorer, scientist, and hero of late n.. http://tinyurl.com/bce276 - February 11, 2009

Civilization so narrows the gamut! Respectability lets the human pendulum swing over such a pitiful little arc. — Clarence King - February 06, 2009

[Feed] Books of The Times: Sometimes One Man Can Live Two Lives: The true story of Clarence King, a 19th-c.. http://tinyurl.com/d92gjp - February 05, 2009

Clarence King (news.puggal.com) - February 11, 2009
Clarence King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist and mountaineer.