a Gilded Age tale of love and deception across the color line Sandweiss, Martha A. creator text bibliography biography xxu New York (Estados Unidos) Penguin Press 2009 monographic eng 370 páginas fotografías 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. An invented life -- Clarence King and Ada Copeland -- Becoming Clarence King -- King of the West -- Becoming Ada Copeland -- King of the city -- James and Ada Todd -- New beginnings -- Family lives -- Breakdowns -- Endings -- Ada King -- On her own -- The trial -- Secrets. specialized Martha A. Sandweiss Texto en inglés King, Clarence 1842-1901 King, Ada 1860-1964 Afroamericanos Estudio de casos Afroamericanos Biografías Relaciones humanas Estados Unidos Problemas raciales Historia Siglo XIX 9781594202001 9781615235131 9780143116868 2008034886 Co-BoUCM 170419 20170419122022.0 ocn233549201 spa