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Literature & Fiction
The engaging biography of one of the most celebrated and enduring authors of Western literature Charles Dickens grew up in harsh poverty and became one of the world's most beloved authors. Biographer Fred Kaplan takes a... See More
Literature & Fiction
An absorbing study of the evolution of sentiment in Victorian life and literature What is sentimentality, and where did it come from? For acclaimed scholar and biographer Fred Kaplan, the seeds were planted by the British... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Pulitzer Prize finalist: "The definitive biography"of the Victorian-era writer and historian (The Times Literary Supplement). A Pulitzer finalist that draws upon years of research and unpublished letters, Thomas Carlyle... See More
History
America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
"There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man... [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer... If he could read this biography... See More
History
"Anyone who wants to understand the United States' racial divisions will learn a lot from reading Kaplan's richly researched account of one of the worst periods in American history and its chilling effects today in our... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
A stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors Henry James is an absorbing portrait of one of the most complex and influential nineteenth-century American writers. Fred... See More
History
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who -- against fierce resistance from within their own ranks -- changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military... See More
Literature & Fiction
"A fine, invaluable book... Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president... Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln's steadily maturing prose style enabled him to come to grips with slavery and, as... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"An important, disturbing, and gripping history" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
This "fascinating" biography of an iconic American author and public intellectual "is so full of incident and celebrity... a pageant of entertaining stories" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Few writers of recent memory... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer. In this unique biography, Fred... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
In this magisterial full-scale biography of America's greatest storyteller and satirist, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Fred Kaplan refashions our image of Mark Twain and etches a vibrant portrait of a... See More
History
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that... See More
History
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While conventional accounts focus on the sixties as the era of pivotal change that... See More
History
This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear... See More