Books written by Fred Kaplan

Dickens: A Biography

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The Wizards of Armageddon

266 267 287 267 267 267 268 268 268 268 268 268 268 268 268 269 269 tions to R.Adm. Parker, 21 August 1960," ibid.;" transcript, “Adm. Burke's Conversation with Sec. Franke, 12 August 1960” and “Adm. Burke's Conversation with Gen.
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

“This is just like Communism”: Transcript, “Adm. Burke's Conversation with Secretary Franke, 12 August 1960,” Arleigh Burke Papers, SIOP/ NSTL Briefing Folder, Navy Yard, Washington, DC*; Kaplan, op. cit. 265-67. “You're more generous”: ...
Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

See DraftMemorandum, Wayne Smith and Andrew Marshall to Kissinger, ''Intelligence Reorganization: More ... 14 brainchild of John Foster Richard H. Van Atta et al., Transformation and Transition: DARPA's Role in Fostering an Emerging ...
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

Traces the life of Mark Twain from his youth in Hannibal, Missouri, through his days as a riverboat pilot and journalist, to his literary success, describing his work, his troubled personal life, and his business failures.
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

“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.
Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War

Lincoln and the Abolitionists, a frank look at Lincoln, “warts and all,” including his limitations as a wartime leader, provides an in-depth look at how these two presidents came to see the issues of slavery and race, and how that ...
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 Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast ...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Simon & Schuster.
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

This is a story of power, politics, ideas, and personalities—and how they converged to reshape the twenty-first-century American military.
Thomas Carlyle: A Biography

Fred Kaplan delves into the author’s intense personal life, which includes his turbulent marriage to author Jane Baillie Welsh and his disillusionment with religion.
Gore Vidal: A Biography

For this definitive biography, Fred Kaplan was given access to Vidal’s papers and letters. The result is an insightful and entertaining portrait of an exceptional and mercurial writer.
Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer

. 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.” — Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post ...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

“A consistently eye-opening history...not just a page-turner but consistently surprising.” —The New York Times “A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related.” —John le Carré As cyber-attacks ...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

—Dorothy Denning, author, Information Warfare and Security; first inductee, National Cyber Security Hall of Fame “Dark Territory is a remarkable piece of reporting. Fred Kaplan has illuminated not merely the profound vulnerabilities of ...
Dickens Studies Annual: 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 are also discussed.
Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, A Biography

ED2 , 255 ; HJ / RLS , 12 / 5 / 1884 . ED3 , 58 ; HJ / WJ , 5 / 9 / 1885 . HO . 19 . “ The Art of Fiction , ” Longman ' s Magazine , 9 / 1884 . 20 . Review of “ RLS , Letters , ” North American Review , 1 / 1900 . 21 .
The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

The "War Stories" columnist for Slate presents the inside story of a small group of soldier-scholars who have significantly changed the ways the Pentagon does business and the American military fights wars, drawing on interviews with top ...
The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography

... chase phantoms half the days of our lives , " he preached to his brother , callow sol- ace for his failure to find him a patronage position . He , too , he assured Orion , was chasing phantoms : " [ I ] must go on chasing them until I ...