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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 publishe...
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear warโ...
How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
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 pa...
The Biography of a Writer
โA fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Linco...
The Secret History of Cyber War
Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Simon & Schuster....
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational - finding word...
A Biography
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A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
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 Jeff...
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
The inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars who changed the way the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, against ...
Sentimentality in Victorian Literature
An absorbing study of the evolution of sentiment in Victorian life and literature What is sentimentality, and where did it come from? For acclaimed sc...
A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation
One CD-ROM disc in pocket....
The Year Everything Changed
Acclaimed national security columnist and noted cultural critic Fred Kaplan looks past the 1960s to the year that really changed America While convent...
The Imagination of Genius, A Biography
DIVA stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors/divDIV Henry James is an absorbing portrait of one...
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On the decisions of a small group that devised the plans and policies on the use of nuclear weapons. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portla...
Born Samuel Langhorn Clemens, Mark Twain was a humorist and author considered by many to be one of the defining voices in American literature. Twain i...
Novelist, culture critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, actor, homosexual, bisexual, controversial, confrontational unflinching, c...
American Visionary
โThere is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . [Kap...
A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear Threat
The Poet's Sense of Self in Nineteenth-century Poetry
A Report
John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
"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 wor...
A Photographic and Typographic Facsimile of the Notebook Begun in January 1855
Essays on Victorian Fiction
This work presents a collection of essays that examine Victorian fiction. Emphasis is placed on Dickens, although the works of Trollope and Thackeray ...
Mark Twain has shaped our view of childhood, the frontier spirit, slavery ... and the follies and pretensions of humankind. His novel "Huckleberry Fin...