{"id":929,"date":"2015-05-17T11:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T15:14:37","slug":"jeff-shaara-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Shaara&#8217;s History of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jeff-Shaara-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-930\" alt=\"Jeff Shaara web\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jeff-Shaara-web-220x300.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jeff-Shaara-web-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Jeff-Shaara-web.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All fourteen of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffshaara.com\/\">Jeff Shaara&#8217;<\/a>s novels have been New York Times bestsellers, starting with his first, <em>Gods and Generals<\/em>, in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an impressive track record and he&#8217;s got an impressive family history, too. His father, Michael Shaara, won a Pulitzer Prize for <em>Killer Angels<\/em>, the source material for the film<em> Gettysburg<\/em> and the impetus for Jeff writing \u00a0<em>Gods and Generals<\/em>, a prequel to <em>Killer Angels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen in to hear Shaara describe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The difficulty researching the Civil War without being overwhelmed by the amount of information on it.<\/li>\n<li>Accurately portraying different time periods in novels.<\/li>\n<li>Writing a novel about the Korean War, under the shadow of MASH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shaara will appear as part of the Thurber House&#8217;s <a title=\"Thurber House\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thurberhouse.org\/jeff-shaara1.html\">Evenings with Authors<\/a> on June 3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2494\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-929-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Craft_2015-4-16_JeffShaara.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Craft_2015-4-16_JeffShaara.mp3\">http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Craft_2015-4-16_JeffShaara.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Craft_2015-4-16_JeffShaara.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?powerpress_pinw=929-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/crafttheshow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Craft_2015-4-16_JeffShaara.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Craft_2015-4-16_JeffShaara.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All fourteen of Jeff Shaara&#8217;s novels have been New York Times bestsellers, starting with his first, Gods and Generals, in 1996. It&#8217;s an impressive track record and he&#8217;s got an impressive family history, too. His father, Michael Shaara, won a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/?p=929\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,74],"tags":[209,210,208,206,207],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-to-attend","category-thurber-house-author","tag-civil-war","tag-fiction","tag-gods-and-generals","tag-jeff-shaara","tag-new-york-times-bestsellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crafttheshow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}