Susan Wels An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder

About the author:

Susan Wels is a New York Times bestselling author and historian. Her books include Titanic: Legacy of the World’s Greatest Ocean Liner; Amelia Earhart: The Thrill of It; Pearl Harbor: America’s Darkest Day; and The Olympic Spirit: 100 Years of the Games.

About the book:

Susan Wels’s true-crime odyssey An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading readers from a free-love utopian community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield in 1881 by a former member of the community. This deeply researched narrative tells the 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); the gloomy, indecisive President James Garfield; and Garfield’s demented assassin, Charles Guiteau, who was connected to all of them in surprising ways.

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