Susan Wels
Auteur van Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner
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An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder (2023) 57 exemplaren
America: Then and Now 1 exemplaar
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- 1956-06-15
- Geslacht
- female
- Woonplaatsen
- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Stanford University
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An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a N… door Susan Wels
Considered on an anecdote-by-anecdote level, Susan Wels writes well, but taken as a whole, An Assassin in Utopia is a bit of a mess. If there is a central point that Wels is trying to make about the assassination of the U.S. President James Garfield in the 1880s, it's lost amid all the tangents and digressions. I mean, it's certainly horrifyingly gripping to learn that two whales boiled to death in a fire at a "museum" run by P.T. Barnum, but what does it have to do with anything that the book's about? Not a terrible book, but an unnecessary one.… (meer)
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