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Fred Kaplan

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Slate's War Stories columnist, sometimes jazz critic; author of The Bomb, Dark Territory, The Insurgents, 1959, Daydream Believers, The Wizards of Armageddon.

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Do people know about Steve Kerr’s father? Malcolm Kerr, one of the great Middle East scholars (his book “The Arab Cold War” is seminal) and, as president of the Amer Univ in Beirut, the 1st American killed by an Islamic Jihad gunman. In 1984, when Steve was 18.