Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Martha Sandweiss' PASSING STRANGE featured in USA Today



By Bob Minzesheimer
Monday, February 23, 2009; USA Today

In February, Black History Month, publishers release a flood of books about or by African Americans. USA TODAY recommends a dozen new titles for all ages.

Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin, $27.95) by Martha Sandweiss is a fascinating slice of history: the double life of a socially prominent white geologist and explorer, Clarence King, who worked as a black Pullman porter so he could marry the black woman he loved.



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