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: "Civilization so narrows the gamut!” King once wrote to Hay. “Respectability lets the human pendulum swing over such a pitiful little arc.” But in rebelling against that notion of respectability, King created an arc wider than anything he might have imagined and lived a more profound lie than dissemblers about race or gender usually can"