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Fred Kaplan
From the author of The Wizards of Armageddoncomes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war-and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises-from Truman to Trump.
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Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding words to describe Gore Vidal is never difficult. This book provides a biography of…
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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…
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Born into an ecentric and difficult family, Henry James left the USA for Europe, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred Kaplan recreates James’ world…
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Conventional historical wisdom regards the sixties as the era that transformed America. Yet, as Fred Kaplan argues, it was 1959 that ushered in the great cultural, political, and scientific shifts…
From a childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed writer of his time and beyond, Dickens’ life was as tumultuous as those of…
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…
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Explores the life of America’s 16th president through his use of language as a vehicle both to express complex ideas and feelings and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment…
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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 historya leader of sweeping perspective…
[Kaplan] tells this story with precision and eloquence. Seattle TimesAn eye-opening biography from a trusted source on the topic. Kirkus ReviewElegantly written and thoroughly researched. Publishers WeeklyThe acclaimed biographer, with…
Fred Kaplan (CUNY Graduate Center)
Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Simon & Schuster.
Kaplan describes how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war. He illustrates the unthinkable in terms of mass destruction and demonstrates how…
Charles Dickens
An excellent collection of critical and social commentary that will help to make Dickens’ image of Victorian England meaningful to all students. -John Howard Wilson, Dakota Wesleyan University
A critical edition of Oliver Twist which reprints the 1846 text - the last edition Dickens substantially revised. It provides backrgound and source material which focuses on the 1834 Poor…
Fred M. Kaplan
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…
America’s power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened is well known. This title explains the…
Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
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…
Mr Fred Kaplan
How will America wake up from its foreign policy nightmare?
Adam Reynolds,Jeanine Michna-Bales
Countdown is a unique photography book experience that explores the offensive and defensive nuclear infrastructure in the United States during the Cold War. Through two balanced photo essays, photographers Jeanine…
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Karel Kaplan,Fred H Eidlin
In this book, Karel Kaplan maintains that the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia is able to function as the backbone of the power monopoly in Communist societies because all of its…
