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31 produkter
Lincoln
The Biography of a Writer
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 2010
184 kr
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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 and as an instrument of persuasion and empowerment. Like the other great canonical writers of American literature-a status …
John Quincy Adams
American Visionary
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2024
113 kr
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"One of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man . . . [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer" (Carol Berkin, Washington Post).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 …
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2017
170 kr
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"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 chilling effects today in our cities, legislative bodies, schools, and houses of worship." — St. Louis …
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 2018
234 kr
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"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 chilling effects today in our cities, legislative bodies, schools, and houses of worship." — St. Louis …
His Masterly Pen
A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2022
227 kr
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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 writer.In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jeffersons genius with language and his ability to …
His Masterly Pen
A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Av Fred Kaplan
Ljudbok, 2022
210 kr
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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 writer. In this unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson’s genius with language and his ability …
Hard Times
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Charles Dickens, Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 2016
217 kr
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The 1854 text, edited by Sylvère Monod, is accompanied here by explanatory footnotes. Contextual pieces by critics and theorists of Dickens’ time bring readers examples of their views on industrialism, education and utilitarianism. Included are eight new critical essays.
Oliver Twist
A Norton Critical Edition
Av Charles Dickens, Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 1992
201 kr
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The editor has corrected printers’ errors and annotated unfamiliar terms and allusions.Three illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliver's London accompany the text."Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, central both to Dickens and to the characters in …
1959
The Year Everything Changed
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2009
139 kr
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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 wave …
Gore Vidal
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 2000
374 kr
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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. And yet, an accurate picture of this multifaceted chameleon has eluded us until now. This book provides …
Dickens
A Biography
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 1999
493 kr
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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 tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of life in Victorian England. And no one has captured the rich texture of …
Henry James
The Imagination of Genius, A Biography
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 1999
509 kr
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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, where he quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred Kaplan recreates the world of Henry James: …
Wizards of Armageddon
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 1991
352 kr
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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 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 …
Wizards of Armageddon
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 1991
482 kr
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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 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 …
Gore Vidal
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2012
381 kr
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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. And yet, an accurate picture of this multifaceted chameleon has eluded us until now. This book provides …
Lincoln
The Biography of a Writer
Av Fred Kaplan
Ljudbok, 2008
227 kr
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“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln’s steadily maturing prose style enabled him to come to grips with slavery and, as his own views evolved, to express his deepening opposition to it.” …
The Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 2014
236 kr
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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 Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars. The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of …
Insurgents
David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2013
209 kr
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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 Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars. The Insurgents is the inside story of the small group of …
Dark Territory
The Secret History of Cyber War
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2016
213 kr
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“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 …
Henry James
The Imagination of Genius, A Biography
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2013
227 kr
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A stunning biography of the magisterial author behind The Portrait of a Lady and The AmbassadorsHenry 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, a famous …
Dickens
A Biography
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2013
46 kr
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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: his …
Thomas Carlyle
A Biography
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2013
227 kr
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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 of Sartor …
Sacred Tears
Sentimentality in Victorian Literature
Av Fred Kaplan
E-bok, 2013
131 kr
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An absorbing study of the evolution of sentiment in Victorian life and literatureWhat 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 them …
Daydream Believers
How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
Av Fred Kaplan
Ljudbok, 2008
242 kr
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America’s power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past eight years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. In Daydream Believers, celebrated Slate columnist Fred …
Bomb
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Av Fred Kaplan
Ljudbok, 2020
514 kr
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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 nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense …
Bomb
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Av Fred Kaplan
Häftad, 2021
170 kr
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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 nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual …
