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Fred Kaplan writes the “War Stories” column in Slate, and contributes frequently to the New York Times. The author of the classic book The Wizards of Armageddon, he has also written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. A former Boston Globe newspaper reporter based in Washington and Moscow, he co-won a Pulitzer Prize for a special Sunday supplement on the nuclear arms race. He earned a Ph.D. from MIT. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.




19 Ebooks by Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan: Daydream Believers
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 …
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€16.99
Fred Kaplan: 1959
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 …
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€16.99
Fred Kaplan: The Wizards of Armageddon
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 str …
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€37.99
Lucas E. Morel: Lincoln & Liberty
Essays exploring the sixteenth president’s political philosophy. Generations of Americans have studied Abraham Lincoln’s life, presidency, and leadership, often remaking him into a figure …
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€18.74
Fred Kaplan: Lincoln
A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincolns steadily maturing prose style enabled him to …
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€9.99
Fred Kaplan: John Quincy Adams
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 …
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€9.99
Fred Kaplan: Lincoln and the Abolitionists
"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 …
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€14.99
Fred Kaplan: Singular Mark Twain
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€22.02
Fred Kaplan: 1959
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 …
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€13.74
Kaplan Fred Kaplan: Gore Vidal
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational – finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. And …
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€19.99
Fred Kaplan: Henry James
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 …
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€18.69
Fred Kaplan: Dickens
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. …
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€18.61
Fred Kaplan: Thomas Carlyle
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 …
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€18.69
Fred Kaplan: Sacred Tears
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 …
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€11.24
Fred Kaplan: Gore Vidal
This “fascinating” biography of an iconic American author and public intellectual “is so full of incident and celebrity . . . a pageant of entertaining stories” (The …
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€3.75
Fred Kaplan: Bomb
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear warand Presidents’ actions in nuclear crisesfrom Truman …
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€16.42
Lucas E. Morel: Lincoln and Liberty
Since Abraham Lincoln’s death, generations of Americans have studied his life, presidency, and leadership, often remaking him into a figure suited to the needs and interests of their own time. This i …
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€43.99
Fred Kaplan: His Masterly Pen
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 …
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€19.99