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Michael Shaara


Born
in Jersey City, New Jersey, The United States
June 23, 1928

Died
May 05, 1988

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Michael Shaara was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra, which in Italian is pronounced the same way) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division prior to the Korean War.
Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, he was an amateur boxer and police officer. He later taught literature at Florida State University while continuing to write fiction. The stress of this and his smoking caused him to have a heart attack at the early age of 36; from which he fully recovered. His novel about the Ba
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“There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

“The truth is, Colonel, that there's no divine spark, bless you. There's many a man alive no more value than a dead dog. Believe me, when you've seen them hang each other...Equality? Christ in Heaven. What I'm fighting for is the right to prove I'm a better man than many. Where have you seen this divine spark in operation, Colonel? Where have you noted this magnificent equality? The Great White Joker in the Sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. no two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf nor a tree. There's many a man worse than me, and some better, but I don't think race or country matters a damn. What matters is justice. 'Tis why I'm here. I'll be treated as I deserve, not as my father deserved. I'm Kilrain, and I God damn all gentlemen. I don't know who me father was and I don't give a damn. There's only one aristocracy, and that's right here - " he tapped his white skull with a thick finger - "and YOU, Colonel laddie, are a member of it and don't even know it. You are damned good at everything I've seen you do, a lovely soldier, an honest man, and you got a good heart on you too, which is rare in clever men. Strange thing. I'm not a clever man meself, but I know it when I run across it. The strange and marvelous thing about you, Colonel darlin', is that you believe in mankind, even preachers, whereas when you've got my great experience of the world you will have learned that good men are rare, much rarer than you think.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

“He bent down, scratched the black dirt into his fingers. He was beginning to warm to it; the words were beginning to flow. No one in front of him was moving. He said, "This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by what your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land--there's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me, we're worth something more than the dirt. I never saw dirt I'd die for, but I'm not asking you to come join us and fight for dirt. What we're all fighting for, in the end, is each other.”
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Polls

April 2018 New School Poll

 
  65 votes, 18.3%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945
 
  41 votes, 11.5%

 
  34 votes, 9.6%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902
 
  33 votes, 9.3%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932
 
  27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995
 
  26 votes, 7.3%

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Fitzgerald, 225 pages, 1932
 
  22 votes, 6.2%

 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938
 
  21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940
 
  17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933
 
  11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903
 
  10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939
 
  10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987
 
  9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974
 
  4 votes, 1.1%

 
  3 votes, 0.8%

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929
 
  2 votes, 0.6%

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