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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

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'Colonel Roosevelt' is compelling reading, and Morris a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level.

~Fred Kaplan

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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

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

~Fred Kaplan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

~Fred Kaplan

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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