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Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times and Washington Post, among other publications. His biography of Thomas Carlyle was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Maine.


How Thomas Jefferson’s Writing Established the Stories of Colonial America

Fred Kaplan Examines the Historical Record
November 23, 2022  By Fred Kaplan
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Abraham Lincoln: Breaking Down the Myth of a Perfect President

Fred Kaplan on the Antislavery Moralist Who Distrusted Abolitionism
June 11, 2018  By Fred Kaplan
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