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'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.
~ Fred Kaplan
Art
Brilliant
Colonel
Compelling
Highest
Highest Level
His
Level
Morris
Practices
Reading
Roosevelt
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A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.
~ Fred Kaplan
About
Best
Book
Give
Lincoln
Move
Move On
One Book
Only
Recommendation
Scholars
Shot
Then
Write
Your
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Can a great artist be mean-spirited, grasping, harsh to his family, violent in his emotions, vindictive in his hatreds, an all-purpose scoundrel? If our test cases are the likes of Wagner, Picasso, and, let me say, Dickens, the answer is a resounding yes.
~ Fred Kaplan
Answer
Artist
Cases
Dickens
Emotions
Family
Grasping
Great
Great Artist
Harsh
His
Likes
Me
Our
Picasso
Say
Scoundrel
Test
Vindictive
Violent
Wagner
Yes
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Gore Vidal was a man of immense literary talent, some of which he used well, some of which he wasted.
~ Fred Kaplan
Gore
He
Immense
Literary
Man
Some
Talent
Used
Wasted
Well
Which
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I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.
~ Fred Kaplan
Believed
Biographies
Biography
Contribution
First
Had
Loved
Make
Out
Talent
Thomas
Turned
Writing
Wrote
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I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.
~ Fred Kaplan
Almost
Appalling
Front
Gore
Got
His
Know
Magnificent
Personal
Quite
Strengths
Up
Weaknesses
Well
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I started out as a writer of fiction, but nobody wanted to publish my work as a young man. So I decided to put my interest in the narrative writing of biographies.
~ Fred Kaplan
Biographies
Decided
Fiction
Interest
Man
Narrative
Nobody
Out
Publish
Put
Started
Wanted
Work
Writer
Writing
Young
Young Man
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I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.
~ Fred Kaplan
Alive
Contribute
Culture
Great
Keep
Lives
Stories
Telling
Want
Writers
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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 his lifetime to this year of his bicentennial. Some advice: Don't try that unless you have at least five years available.
~ Fred Kaplan
About
Advice
Available
Been
Expert
Five
Had
Has-Been
Him
His
Least
Lifetime
Lincoln
Much
Pleasure
Rather
Reading
Some
Try
Unless
Who
Written
Year
Years
You
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In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.
~ Fred Kaplan
Another
Attempting
Best
Best Way
Charles
Charles Dickens
Confusion
Deal
Dickens
He
His
How
Knew
Life
Like
Maybe
More
Pain
Poor
Rest
Soul
Us
Way
Wonderful
World
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Is there really any relationship between artists' personal conduct and their art? Certainly not.
~ Fred Kaplan
Any
Art
Artists
Between
Certainly
Conduct
Personal
Really
Relationship
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It should be quite clear that it is possible for unpleasant people who are small in various ways other than in their artistic genius to produce great art. Art and morality have no necessary connection.
~ Fred Kaplan
Art
Artistic
Clear
Connection
Genius
Great
Great Art
Morality
Necessary
Other
People
Possible
Produce
Quite
Should
Small
Than
Unpleasant
Various
Ways
Who
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Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great writers in American literature.
~ Fred Kaplan
American
American Literature
Brilliant
Canon
Deserves
Genius
Great
Language
Lincoln
Literature
Part
Seen
Who
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Writers
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Lincoln is distinguished from every other president, with the exception of Jefferson, in that we can be certain that he wrote every word to which his name is attached.
~ Fred Kaplan
Attached
Certain
Distinguished
Every
Exception
He
His
Jefferson
Lincoln
Name
Other
President
Which
Word
Wrote
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Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.
~ Fred Kaplan
Lincoln
Our
Politics
Twain
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Myth and mythology often serve constructive and aspirational purposes. But they also do harm.
~ Fred Kaplan
Also
Constructive
Harm
Myth
Mythology
Often
Purposes
Serve
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Obama is a very fine writer with an excellent command of language. His memoir 'Dreams From My Father' is a fine book, but it will not rank as one of the great autobiographies.
~ Fred Kaplan
Autobiographies
Book
Command
Dreams
Excellent
Father
Fine
Great
His
Language
Memoir
Obama
Rank
Very
Will
Writer
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Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.
~ Fred Kaplan
Approach
Figures
Historical
History
Only
Political
Political History
Way
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Reading Edmund Morris's 'Colonel Roosevelt' is a rewarding journey, as it must also have been for its author, who concludes his three-volume saga begun in 1980 with publication of 'The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.'
~ Fred Kaplan
Also
Author
Been
Begun
Colonel
His
Journey
Morris
Must
Publication
Reading
Rewarding
Rise
Roosevelt
Saga
Theodore
Theodore Roosevelt
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Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.
~ Fred Kaplan
Base
Biographies
Facts
Historical
Need
Serious
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