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Iva Rušin ivamhm — I've wanted to read this ever since I saw the movie in my high school psychology class. Mental disorders intrigue me. I know multiple personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder are really touchy issues because no one can agree if they exist or not, but it was such a fascinating book, even if it might have been complete fiction.

Philip Driessen philipdriessen — An unbelievable story told with verve and insight. This book is partially a biography of Clarence King, a famed author and friend of notables like John Hay (Secretary of State under Roosevelt, who called King "the best and brightest of his generation") and Henry Adams (of "The Education of Henry Adams" fame), who was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey (1879-1881). What Sandweiss shows here, though, is that he lived a secret double life, spending years pretending to be a black Pullman car porter named James Todd so that he could marry his love Ada Copeland, an ex-slave from Georgia living in Brooklyn. Sandweiss is able to relate King's odd habit of sudden disappearance from the historical record to the times he spent with his black family and with the birth of his children. Only at his deathbed did he reveal to his wife that he was not a Pullman porter but one of the most famous men of the era, and white. The parts about his marriage to Ada are ultimately built on speculation, but Sandweiss conducts much of this with surprising intuition and confidence. Though some parts drag, this is an amazing story that deserves to be more widely known.