Stephen L Carter
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2018.
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She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s-and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the citys underworld, she was the only member of his...
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A large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. Set in two privileged worlds, the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school, it tells the story of a complex family with a single, seductive link to the shadowlands of crime. Judge Oliver Garland has just died suddenly. A brilliant legal mind, conservative and famously controversial,...
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c2014.
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It is October 1962. In Cuba, Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen, a nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore, is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back channel liaison between...
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[2009]
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In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his beside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to...
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[2007]
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Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julia, the divinity school's deputy dean, are American's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard one night, the couple skids off the road. Near the site of their accident they discover a dead body. To her horror, Julia recognizes the body as a prominent academic and one of her former lovers. In the wake...
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[2011]
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Presents an analysis of Barack Obama's views on war and the military in the first two years of his presidency, discussing his evolution from being a peace candidate to being a president conducting two wars and how this change affects national security and the nation's future.
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1994
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The Culture Of Disbelief has been the subject of an enormous amount of media attention from the first moment it was published. Hugely successful in hardcover, the Anchor paperback is sure to find a large audience as the ever-increasing, enduring debate about the relationship of church and state in America continues. In The Culture Of Disbelief, Stephen Carter explains how we can preserve the vital separation of church and state while embracing rather...
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c2013
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Pericles "Perry" Christo is a PI with a past--a former cop, who lost his badge and his family when a corruption scandal left him broke and disgraced. When wealthy Upper East Side matron Julia Drusilla summons him one cold February night, he grabs what seems to be a straightforward (and lucrative) case. The socialite is looking for her beautiful, aimless daughter, Angelina, who is about to become a very wealthy young woman. But as Christo digs deeper,...