Explores the life and works of Dickens in light of social and psychological theory, with attention to his marriage, long-time mistress, friends, and the many facets of Victorian society from which his material is drawn

Dickens: A Biography (A John Curtis book)

Biographies & Memoirs

fred-kaplan

Arts & Literature

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Gore Vidal: A Biography

BLOOMSBURY

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 never before revealed.

The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

History

Military

Stanford University Press

Includes coverage of Books about Books; Reference Books on Literature; Broad Studies & General Anthologies; British Poetry of the Early to Romantic & Middle Periods; Modern British & Irish Poetry; Early & Modern American Poetry; British Fiction of the Middle & Modern Periods; Early & Modern American Fiction; Commonwealth Literature; Essays & Criticism; Literary Biography & Autobiography. See main listing under Bibliography for more information.

Reader's Adviser: Best in American and British Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Literary Biography, Bibliography and Reference v. 1: A Layman's Guide to Literature

Reference

R.R.Bowker

Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Daydream Believers combines high-level reporting with razor-sharp analysis to explain how Bush got so far off track and why much of the nation followed him. The grand illusions he believed in are flattering to the gullible, but they are absolutely wrong.Kaplan argues that the Daydreamers' biggest mistake is the notion that 9/11 changed everything. The world operates now exactly as it always has, and the tragedy doesn't excuse them from history class. But these Daydreamers believe that they stand on the threshold of a revolution and that if we are clear in our purpose, noble in our goals, and loud in our denunciations, the victory is ours. After all, their world view also imagines that beneath every foreign face lurks an American mind waiting to be set free.Yet the decline of the Daydreamers, Kaplan warns, could herald an era even worse than where we are now.

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Daydream Believers combines high-level reporting with razor-sharp analysis to explain how Bush got so far off track and why much of the nation followed him. The grand illusions he believed in are flattering to the gullible, but they are absolutely wrong.Kaplan argues that the Daydreamers' biggest mistake is the notion that 9/11 changed everything. The world operates now exactly as it always has, and the tragedy doesn't excuse them from history class. But these Daydreamers believe that they stand on the threshold of a revolution and that if we are clear in our purpose, noble in our goals, and loud in our denunciations, the victory is ours. After all, their world view also imagines that beneath every foreign face lurks an American mind waiting to be set free.
Yet the decline of the Daydreamers, Kaplan warns, could herald an era even worse than where we are now.

Americas

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Simon&Schuster

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 history—a leader of sweeping perspective whose progressive values helped shape the course of the nation. In this fresh and lively biography rich in literary analysis and new historical detail, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams—the little known and much misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams—and persuasively demonstrates how Adams's inspiring, progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America. Kaplan draws on a trove of unpublished archival material to trace Adams's evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his brilliant years as Secretary of State to his time in the White House and beyond. He examines Adams's myriad sides: the public and private man, the statesman and writer, the wise thinker and passionate advocate, the leading abolitionist and fervent federalist who believed strongly in both individual liberty and the government's role as an engine of progress and prosperity. In these ways—and in his energy, empathy, sharp intellect, and powerful gift with words both spoken and written—he was a predecessor of Lincoln and, later, FDR and Obama. Indeed, this sweeping biography makes clear how Adams's forward-thinking values, his definition of leadership, and his vision for the nation's future is as much about twenty-first century America as it is about Adams's own time.

John Quincy Adams

Historical

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

As cyber attacks dominate front-page news and as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, award-winning journalist Fred Kaplan probes the most secretive government agencies to tell the never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised a new form of warfare and who have been planning-- and, more often than people know, fighting-- these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future.

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Dickens: A Biography (A John Curtis book)

Gore Vidal: A Biography

The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)

Reader's Adviser: Best in American and British Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Literary Biography, Bibliography and Reference v. 1: A Layman's Guide to Literature

Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

John Quincy Adams

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War