Fred Kaplan

Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate, contributes frequently to the "New York Times'" Arts & Leisure section, and blogs about jazz for "Stereophile." A Pulitzer Prize winning former "Boston Globe" reporter who covered the Pentagon and post-Soviet Moscow, he has also written for the "New Yorker," "New York," the "Atlantic," the "Washington Post," and other publications. He is the author of "Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power," also available from Wiley. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Brooke Gladstone. http: //www.1959thebook.com