Passing Strange (Record no. 12340)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01333nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2008034886 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781594202001 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 233549201 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | E185.625 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.896073 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Martha A. Sandweiss |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Passing Strange |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Press HC, The |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 384 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the best and brightest of his generation." But King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family in Newport: for thirteen years he lived a double life-the first as the prominent white geologist and writer Clarence King, and a second as the black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd. The fair, blue-eyed son of a wealthy China trader passed across the color line, revealing his secret to his black common-law wife, Ada Copeland, only on his deathbed. In Passing Strange, noted historian Martha A. Sandweiss tells the dramatic, distinctively American tale of a family built along the fault lines of celebrity, class, and race- a story that spans the long century from Civil War to civil rights. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Biography |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 07/17/2024 | BIO KING | 55224 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |