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• Fred Kaplan:

  I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has

• Fred Kaplan:

  With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game o

• Fred Kaplan:

  A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then m

• Fred Kaplan:

  Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

• Fred Kaplan:

  Lincoln is distinguished from every other president, with the exception of Jefferson, in that we ca

• Fred Kaplan:

  The challenge of a president himself struggling to find the conjunction between the right words and

• Fred Kaplan:

  The value of Eric Foner's 'The Fiery Trial' lies in its comprehensive review of mostly familiar mat

• Fred Kaplan:

  To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appr

• Fred Kaplan:

  Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for i

• Fred Kaplan:

  'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art