{"id":736,"date":"2012-09-02T00:43:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=736"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:43:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:43:30","slug":"year-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1966: <strong>In Cold Blood<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Truman Capote<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1497361~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_ColdBlood2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-737 alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_ColdBlood2-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_ColdBlood2-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_ColdBlood2-624x409.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_ColdBlood2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/wen_ColdBlood1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-738 alignnone\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/wen_ColdBlood1-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another book selected by the<a href=\"http:\/\/myloc.gov\/Exhibitions\/books-that-shaped-america\/1950-2000\/ExhibitObjects\/In-Cold-Blood.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"> Library of Congress as one of the books that shaped America<\/a>, <em>In Cold Blood<\/em> is a nonfiction novel inspired by a story<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">&#8220;&#8230;about a murder that led Truman Capote to travel with his childhood friend Harper Lee ( author of A Kill a Mockingbird) \u00a0to Holcomb, Kansas, to research his nonfiction novel, which is considered one of the greatest true crime books ever written. Capote said the novel was an attempt to establish a serious new literary form, the \u201cnonfiction novel,\u201d a narrative form that employed all the techniques of fictional art but was nevertheless entirely factual. The book was an instant success and was made into a film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2004662664\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1798 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/portraitofcapote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/portraitofcapote.jpg 304w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/portraitofcapote-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A portrait of Capote as a young man by <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/collections\/vanvechten\/index.html\">Carl Van Vechten<\/a> courtesy of the American Memory Project.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;<\/em>http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2004662664\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1966: In Cold Blood Author\/Editor: Truman Capote Find it in Collins Library! Another book selected by the Library of Congress as one of the books that shaped America, In Cold Blood is a nonfiction novel inspired by a story &#8220;&#8230;about a murder that led Truman Capote to travel with his childhood friend Harper Lee ( [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1958-1967"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}