Fred Kaplan: 16 books
Lincoln
The Biography of a Writer
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln’s ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers and listeners.” — James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books
“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our...
John Quincy Adams
American Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Lincoln, returns with John Quincy Adams, an illuminating biography of one of the most overlooked presidents in American history—a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation.
In this fresh...
1959
The Year Everything Changed
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2009
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 swept the nation, Fred Kaplan argues that it was 1959 that ushered in the...
The Singular Mark Twain
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
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 singular personality who created some of the most memorable literary characters...
Thomas Carlyle
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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A Pulitzer finalist that draws upon years of research and unpublished letters, Thomas Carlyle examines the life of the Victorian genius. Carlyle was the author...
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
**“[Kaplan] tells this story with precision and eloquence.”****—**Seattle Times
“An eye-opening biography from a trusted source on the topic.” **—**Kirkus Review
“Elegantly written and thoroughly researched.”** **—**Publishers Weekly
The acclaimed biographer,...
Sacred Tears
Sentimentality in Victorian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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 moral philosophers of the eighteenth century. The Victorians gained from...
Gore Vidal
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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 have distinguished themselves in so many fields, and...
Dickens
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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 brilliant, multifaceted approach in his examination of Dickens’s life:...
Henry James
The Imagination of Genius, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
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 Kaplan examines James’s brilliant and troubled family—from his brother,...
The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions—the United States military. Their aim was to build a new Army...
Dark Territory
The Secret History of Cyber War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“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—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass...
Daydream Believers
How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
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. Celebrated Slate columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled...
by Fred Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1991
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 age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.
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