{"id":4101,"date":"2023-09-11T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T21:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2023-09-13T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:41:39","slug":"author-susan-wels-on-the-crafting-of-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/11\/author-susan-wels-on-the-crafting-of-titanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Susan Wels on the legacy of Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our guest today is bestselling author, historian and journalist Susan Wels whom over a quarter of a century ago researched and published a large format book tracing the entire Titanic story, from its construction in the early 1900s to its present day exploration at the bottom of the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/images-2.jpg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4104\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/images-2.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/images-2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(Audio 232) Sail Sport Talk with Rick Tittle and Patti Mangan: Sir Robin Knox Johnston; Susan Wels\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/863861719?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Susan Wels is a New York Times-bestselling author, historian, and journalist. Her new book, An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President\u2019s Murder\u2014a New York Times Editors Choice\u2014is the first book to link the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881 to a free-love community in upstate New York. Her work has been praised and published by The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, PEOPLE, Smithsonian\u2019s Air &amp; Space Magazine, the New York Post, Time.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, the San Jose Mercury-News, and The Independent (UK). A graduate of Stanford University in English literature and journalism, she has a master\u2019s degree in history from San Francisco State University. She has worked on assignment around the world and served as correspondent on the Titanic Research and Recovery Expedition, reporting daily from the site of the Titanic in the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Titanic-Greatest-Oceanliner-illustrated-published\/dp\/B00EKYG3EE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/61JpVNA2bL._SY473_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=494%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4105\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/61JpVNA2bL._SY473_BO1204203200_.jpg?w=494&amp;ssl=1 494w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/61JpVNA2bL._SY473_BO1204203200_.jpg?resize=300%2C288&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest today is bestselling author, historian and journalist Susan Wels whom over a quarter of a century ago researched and published a large format book tracing the entire Titanic story, from its construction in the early 1900s to its present day exploration at the bottom of the North Atlantic. Susan Wels is a New York Times-bestselling author, historian, and journalist. Her new book, An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President\u2019s Murder\u2014a New York Times Editors Choice\u2014is the first book to link the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881 to a&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[603,31,53,44,119,605,606,604],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recognitions","tag-cruising","tag-patti-mangan","tag-sail-sport-talk","tag-sailing","tag-sailing-community","tag-shipbuiliding","tag-shipwreck","tag-titanic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/GettyImages-948031856-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C616&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4101\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}