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Susan Wels~AN ASSASSIN IN UTOPIA~SIGNED 1ST/DJ~NICE COPY
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9781639363124
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN-10
1639363122
ISBN-13
9781639363124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12057260795
Product Key Features
Book Title
Assassin in Utopia : the True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Murder / General, United States / 19th Century, Sociology / General, Presidents & Heads of State, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-443929
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20230309
TitleLeading
An
Reviews
Wels, author of a bestselling book about the Titanic , presents an irresistible biography-in-pictures rich in photographs of Earhart and a slew of intriguing documents. Wels' brisk narrative hits all the main points and captures the spirit of Earhart., Readers will find Guiteau's devolution into an assassin and the history of Oneida both fascinating and shocking, with uncanny parallels to today's news stories.
Dewey Decimal
307.7709747/64
Synopsis
This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield. It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marvelled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place--especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. The men and women of this strange outpost worked and slept together--without sin, they claimed. From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York--the Oneida Community--was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. And in 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community--Charles Julius Guiteau--assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core. An Assassin in Utopia is the first book that weaves together these explosive stories in a tale of utopian experiments, political machinations, and murder. This deeply researched narrative--by bestselling author Susan Wels--tells the true, interlocking stories of the Oneida Community and its radical founder, John Humphrey Noyes; his idol, the eccentric newspaper publisher Horace Greeley (founder of the New Yorker and the New York Tribune) ; and the gloomy, indecisive President James Garfield--who was assassinated after his first six months in office. Juxtaposed to their stories is the odd tale of Garfield's assassin, the demented Charles Julius Guiteau, who was connected to all of them in extraordinary, surprising ways. Against a vivid backdrop of ambition, hucksterism, epidemics, and spectacle, the book's interwoven stories fuse together in the climactic murder of President Garfield in 1881--at the same time as the Oneida Community collapsed. Colourful and compelling, An Assassin in Utopia is a page-turning odyssey through America's nineteenth-century cultural and political landscape., This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield.
LC Classification Number
HX653
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