Susan Wels on the Connection of a 19th-Century Sex Cult to a President’s Murder
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In this episode, Andrew talks to An Assassin in Utopia author Susan Wels about the connection between the assassination of late 19th-century US President James Garfield and the bizarre sex-cult community based in Oneida, New York.
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Susan Wels is a bestselling author, historian, and journalist. Her Titanic: Legacy of the World’s Greatest Ocean Liner spent fourteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list; the book was also a Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today bestseller. Wels’s Pearl Harbor: America’s Darkest Day also was an instant national bestseller. Wels’s work as a historian includes her acclaimed San Francisco: Arts for the City as well as her research on the role of women at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Wels and her husband divide their time between the San Francisco Bay Area and their farm in the south of Chile.
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