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02964aam a2200373 i 4500 001 7B54AE4CD05211EDAFAA7FBA3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230401010016 008 220619t20232023nyuaf e b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1639363122 020 $a 9781639363124 035 $a (OCoLC)1330896663 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ny 100 1 $a Wels, Susan, $e author. 245 13 $a An assassin in utopia : $b the true story of a nineteenth-century sex cult and a president's murder / $c Susan Wels. 250 $a First Pegasus Books cloth edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2023. 300 $a 258 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index. 520 $a It was heaven on earth -- and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. The men and women of this strange outpost worked and slept together -- without sin, they claimed. From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York -- the Oneida Community -- was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. And in 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community -- Charles Julius Guiteau -- assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core. This is the first book that weaves together these explosive stories in a tale of utopian experiments, political machinations, and murder. Against a vivid backdrop of ambition, hucksterism, epidemics, and spectacle, the book's interwoven stories fuse together in the climactic murder of President Garfield in 1881 -- at the same time as the Oneida Community collapsed. 505 0 $a The secret history -- A revolution of the senses -- H. Greeley & Co. -- Muggletonians and mystics -- Garfield's crucible -- Dreams and disasters -- Horace Greeley for President -- The master of love -- Prizes of power -- Serpents in the garden -- The removal -- End times -- Over the falls. 600 10 $a Garfield, James A. $q (James Abram), $d 1831-1881. 600 10 $a Guiteau, Charles J. $q (Charles Julius), $d 1841-1882. 650 0 $a Collective settlements. 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 952 $l CZPD706 $d 20240704010137.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20231206014338.0 952 $l HOPC845 $d 20230704010614.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20230519013807.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230404020043.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20230401010202.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B54AE4CD05211EDAFAA7FBA3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search