In "Lincoln", acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan explores the life of America's 16th president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings...
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In this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams—the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the Uni...
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
Fred Kaplan · ISBN 9780062440020
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti nidottu
"[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 thoro...
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...
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the...
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed AmericaWhile conventional accounts focus on the...
Drawing on fresh source material, Fred Kaplan considers the importance From Dickens and Mesmerism of Dickens' involvement with mesmerism for his work and his personality. In so...
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is...
From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as tumul...
One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and difficult family, he left the United States for Europe,...
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
Fred Kaplan · ISBN 9781400095278
Julkaistu 2005 Kieli englanti nidottu
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...
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Fred Kaplan · ISBN 9781451642650
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
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 Pentago...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Fred Kaplan · ISBN 9781476763262
Julkaistu 2017 Kieli englanti nidottu
"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...
A CAPITAL CALAMITY - A Novel by Fred Kaplan "Serge Willoughby just wanted to make money and have fun. He didn't mean to start World War Three." So begins A Capital Calamity, the...
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nu...
The Wizards of Armageddon
Fred Kaplan; Martin J. Sherwin · ISBN 9780804718844
Julkaistu 1991 Kieli englanti pokkari
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 sec...
The Communist Party In Power
Karel Kaplan; Fred H Eidlin · ISBN 9780367290962
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti sidottu
The aim of this book is simple. It seeks to describe the main features of the internal life and functioning of a communist party. It reflects both the results of a historian's r...
The Communist Party In Power
Karel Kaplan; Fred H Eidlin · ISBN 9780367306427
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti nidottu
Karel Kaplan spent eighteen years of his professional life in the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in which he held positions at all echelons of the party hierarchy. His exten...
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....