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Includes the name: Susan Wels

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A Day in the Life of Israel (1994) — Author — 164 copies
Jerusalem: In the Shadow of Heaven (1996) — Author — 35 copies
A Day in the Life of Thailand (1995) — Author — 31 copies

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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.… (more)
 
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707
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½ 3.7
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ISBNs
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