Family Quotes by Fred Kaplan

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan

To give credit to Lincoln for moral progression seems beyond the facts and unnecessary for our appreciation of this arguably greatest of all American…

— Fred Kaplan

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.

— Fred Kaplan

I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed…

— Fred Kaplan

“The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that…

— Fred Kaplan

Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.

— Fred Kaplan

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

— Fred Kaplan

Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.

— Fred Kaplan

“He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been…

— Fred Kaplan

Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it…

— Fred Kaplan

“As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in…

— Fred Kaplan