{"id":65,"date":"2014-02-11T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-02-20T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:40:43","slug":"zuckoffs-libya-book-gets-hollywoods-attention","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/zuckoffs-libya-book-gets-hollywoods-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckoff&#8217;s Libya book gets Hollywood&#8217;s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about-com\/faculty-directory\/mitchell-zuckoff\/\">Prof. Mitchell Zuckoff<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s latest book, &#8220;Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,&#8221; has drawn interest from Paramount as a movie, according to <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> and other media outlets. The book, which is expected to be released in Spring 2014, is a non-fiction narrative account of the attack on the U.S. Special Mission Compound and nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012. Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, were killed in the attack. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/lifestyle\/names\/2014\/02\/11\/paramount-eyeing-movie-based-benghazi-book-prof-mitch-zuckoff\/PoA45AQfWU5f8hhCmpMbpJ\/story.html\">Read the full post<\/a> in the <em>Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckoff is the author many best-selling and award-winning books, including <em>Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II<\/em>, <em>Lost in Shangri-La<\/em>, <em>Robert Altman: The Oral Biography<\/em>, <em>Ponzi\u2019s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend<\/em> and <em>Choosing Naia: A Family\u2019s Journey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/2011\/06\/02\/returning-to-shangri-la\/\">Returning to Shangri-La<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/2011\/06\/23\/zuckoff-visits-the-daily-show\/\">Zuckoff visits <em>The Daily Show<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Mitchell Zuckoff&#8217;s latest book, &#8220;Thirteen Hours: A Firsthand Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi,&#8221; has drawn interest from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9874,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[65,66,67],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}