Lincoln by Fred Kaplan

Lincoln by Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan's Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln's ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers and listeners. -- James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books

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. -- Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World

Fascinating. . . . persuasive and] highly perceptive. -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

From acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan comes an illuminating look at the life of Abraham Lincoln that chronicles his genius with language.

Fred Kaplan writes the War Stories column in Slate, contributes frequently to the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section, and blogs about jazz for Stereophile. A Pulitzer Prize winning former Boston Globe reporter who covered the Pentagon and post-Soviet Moscow, he has also written for the New Yorker, New York, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and other publications. He is the author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, also available from Wiley. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone.
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ISBN 13	9780060773342
ISBN 10	0060773340
Title	Lincoln
Author	Fred Kaplan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2008-10-28
Number of pages	416
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