Susan Wels
Auteur de Titanic: Legacy of the World's Greatest Ocean Liner
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Œuvres de Susan Wels
An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder (2023) 57 exemplaires
America: Then and Now 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1956-06-15
- Sexe
- female
- Lieux de résidence
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Études
- Stanford University
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Critiques
An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a N… par 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.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 715
- Popularité
- #35,476
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 31
- Langues
- 2