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May 7, 2012
Why Bin Laden missed Bush’s “war on terror.”
Fred Kaplan
May 7, 2012
Why Bin Laden missed Bush’s “war on terror.”
Fred Kaplan
May 7, 2012
Among the cache of documents that the SEALs captured during their raid of Osama Bin Laden’s compound last year, one in particular should make many Republican foreign-policy advisers reassess their whole approach to the “war on terror.”
It’s the letter—No. 9 of the 17 missives that the administration released this w...
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1959: The Year Everything Changed
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2009
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Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
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2008
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Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power
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2008
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Gore Vidal: A Biography
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The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
3.52 avg rating — 31 ratings
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2003
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Dickens: A Biography
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Coffee with Mark Twain
by Fred Kaplan, Jay McInerney 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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2008
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Henry James: The Imagination of Genius, a Biography
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1992
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The Reader's Adviser Vol. 1: The Best in American and British Fiction, Poetry, Essays, Literary Biography, Bibliography, and Reference
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Thomas Carlyle: A Biography
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“As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.”
― Fred Kaplan, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
― Fred Kaplan, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography
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