Susan Wels
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Susan Wels

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Susan Wels is a New York Times-bestselling author, historian, and journalist. Her new book, An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder—a New York Times Editors Choice—is the first book to link the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881 to a free-love community in upstate New York. Her work has been praised and published by The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, PEOPLE, Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine, the New York Post, Time.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, the San Jose Mercury-News, and The Independent (UK). A graduate of Stanford University in English literature and journalism, she has a master's degree in history from San Francisco State University. She has worked on assignment around the world and served as correspondent on the Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition, reporting daily from the site of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.
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    • An Assassin in Utopia

    • The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
    • By: Susan Wels
    • Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-2023
    • Language: English
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