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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Wels , Kitty HendrixPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing ISBN: 9798212378192Publication Date: 07 February 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsSusan Wels deftly brings us this close to an amazing cast of real-life nineteenth century characters...making them (and their vivid emotions) newly relatable to our era. You'll be casting An Assassin in Utopia in your head, even as it demonstrates that Free Love is anything but, and that one man can make a difference, often in the worst way possible. -- Chris Connelly, ABC News correspondent Susan Wels has assembled a large and rowdy cast of characters in this immensely enjoyable and engrossing book...All their paths cross in An Assassin in Utopia with surprising and tragic results. -- The Washington Post Susan Wels is a gifted and masterful storyteller. Her book is a fascinating, well-told tale of a presidential assassination and sexually unbridled would-be utopia...An Assassin in Utopia is a deeply researched, riveting book told with impressive command and narrative power. I strongly recommend it. -- Michael Krasny, Professor Emeritus of American Literature A deeply researched, riveting book told with impressive command and narrative power. -- Michael Krasny, professor emeritus of American Literature An immensely enjoyable and engrossing book. Self-proclaimed messiahs, patronage-dealing politicians, ink-stained journalists, table-rapping mediums, tent-raising charlatans: All are trying to make their mark in Gilded Age America. And, remarkably, all their paths cross in An Assassin in Utopia, with surprising and tragic results. -- John Kelly, Washington Post columnist Juggling incels and libertines, the mighty and the mightily deranged, Susan Wels deftly brings us this close to an amazing cast of real-life nineteenth century characters--admirable and horrific, brilliant and doomed, messianic and utterly mad--making them newly relatable to our era. -- Chris Connelly, ABC News correspondent Author InformationSusan 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 bestseller. Kitty Hendrix is from Carmel, California, and has been a professional actor and singer since childhood. She moved to New York City after college and found jobs singing in concert venues, cabarets, comedy clubs, and recording studios. She also acted in theater productions, originating more than twenty leading roles; appeared in film and television; and was a founding producer of Legacy Stage Ensemble, a theater company dedicated to the exploration of generational and social issues. Recording audiobooks since 2013 at her studio in NYC and working in nearly every genre, Kitty has consistently received excellent reviews for her work from AudioFile magazine and others. In 2018 Kitty was nominated as a finalist for an Audie Award for her narration of Daisy Miller by Henry James. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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