Monthly Archives: July 2016
The Thought for the Day – Our Inner Demands
Niagara will witness the passing of the human species…Such ceaselessness had its parallel in his own life…the inner demand to make something of himself…to swim upstream against formidable obstacles. – Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer All right, … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Lincoln, Douglas, Clinton and Trump
…the dynamic Douglas had a gift for making the inaccurate claims seem authoritatively factual and a genius for energizing the already persuaded. – Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, which … Continue reading
The Thought for the Day – Fred Kaplan
…he must have wondered, why had he not achieved what his ambition and talent from early on had directed him toward? – Fred Kaplan, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer Fred Kaplan is an American writer and a biographer of … Continue reading