Books of The Times - ‘Passing Strange,’ by Martha A. Sandweiss, Explores the Dual Life of Clarence King - Review - NYTimes.com

Books of The Times - ‘Passing Strange,’ by Martha A. Sandweiss, Explores the Dual Life of Clarence King - Review - NYTimes.com: "“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 see her walk across a room, you would think someone had tilted up a coffin on end and propelled the corpse spasmodically forward,” he said about one.)"