Stephen L. Carter, Author Basic Books $21 (300p) ISBN 978-0-465-06869-2
Yale law professor Carter's provocative critique of affirmative action has stirred much debate and discussion. (Aug.)
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Stephen L. Carter. Knopf, $27.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-34960-4
In the prologue of Carter’s intriguing what-if thriller, Margo Jensen, a bright 19-year-old Cornell student, meets privately in Washington, D.C., with President Kennedy, who is trying to navigate the Cuban Missile Crisis without triggering nuclear...
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Stephen L. Carter. Knopf, $26.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-307-27263-8
Entering a season heavy with Lincolniana (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter hits movie theaters in June, followed by a Spielberg biopic starring Daniel Day-Lewis in December), Stephen L. Carter delivers a doorstop of alternate history speculating...
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Stephen L. Carter, Beast Books (Perseus, dist.), $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-9842951-7-3
Distinguished Yale Law professor and bestselling author Carter (The Emperor of Ocean Park) examines Obama's words (particularly his invocation of the "just war tradition" during his Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech, the full text of which is...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author Basic Books $26 (264p) ISBN 978-0-465-00886-5
Religion can't be kept out of public life. Yale Law School's Carter, building on the argument he made in The Culture of Disbelief, says the only people who want religious people to abandon religion when they enter the public square are people who...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author Basic Books $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-465-03466-6
When we talk about character, writes Yale law professor Carter (The Culture of Disbelief), integrity ``is in some sense prior to everything else''; thus his mix of anecdote and meditation is a worthy but quirky entree to an important yet hard-to-disc
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Stephen L. Carter, Author Basic Books $25 (328p) ISBN 978-0-465-02647-0
As in his previous book on race ( Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby ), Yale law professor Carter offers a thoughful, cogent and ideologically subtle analysis of a divisive American issue. A deep believer ``in the importance of both religious
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Stephen L. Carter, Author Basic Books $12 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-01365-4
Carter offers his views on the Senate's confirmation process, highlighting such recent candidates as Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Lani Guinier and Zoe Baird. (May)
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Stephen L. Carter, Author Anchor Books $18 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-47498-6
The author of Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby examines the role of religion in American society. (Oct.)
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Stephen L. Carter, Author . Knopf $26.95 (654p) ISBN 978-0-375-41363-6
Carter, a Yale law professor and distinguished conservative African-American intellectual known for his nonfiction (The Culture of Disbelief), has written a first-rate legal thriller guaranteed to broaden his audience. The narrator, Talcott Garland,
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Stephen L. Carter, Author . Knopf $25.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-307-27262-1
Bestseller Carter, who expertly blended social commentary and devious plots in his previous novels (The Emperor of Ocean Park
; New England White
; Palace Council
), delivers a modest spy thriller, his first work of fiction not to focus on...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author . Knopf $26.95 (513p) ISBN 978-0-307-26658-3
Spanning the years from 1954 to 1974, bestseller Carter's third novel, a subtle and intelligent page-turner, centers on the murder of a prominent white Wall Street attorney, Philmont Castle. After literally stumbling on Castle's garroted...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author . Knopf $26.95 (555p) ISBN 978-0-375-41362-9
T
wo lesser characters from Yale law professor Carter's bestselling first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park
(2002)—husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle—take center stage in his second, a compelling, literate page-turner that...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author , read by Peter Francis James. Random House Audio $29.95 (, abridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-553-71338-1
Audio reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionTHE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK: A NovelStephen L. Carter, read by Peter Francis James. Random House Audio,...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author, Dominic Hoffman, Read by , read by Dominic Hoffman. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4340-1
Dominic Hoffman’s voice possesses a touch of sandpaper that causes every word to be rubbed raw before emerging from between his lips. The hardboiled sensation is appropriate for law professor and novelist Carter’s suspenseful story of...
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Stephen L. Carter, Author, Bahni Turpin, Read by , read by Bahni Turpin. Random House Audio $31.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-4338-8
Turpin's reading of Carter's second novel is sublime. In a book where each character's race is important, capturing that fact for the ear alone is a balancing act to be taken quite seriously. The story opens with a body found on the...
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