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Stephen L. Carter


Born
in Washington DC, The United States
October 26, 1954

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Genre
Historical Fiction, Politics


Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale where he has taught since 1982. He has published seven critically acclaimed nonfiction books on topics ranging from affirmative action to religion and politics. His first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002), was an immediate national best seller. His latest novel is New England White (Knopf, 2007). A recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Fiction, he lives near New Haven, Connecticut."

Also writes under the pen name A.L Shields. ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 21,699 ratings · 3,331 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors
The Emperor of Ocean Park (...
3.62 avg rating — 7,246 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions
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New England White
3.53 avg rating — 2,904 ratings — published 2007 — 40 editions
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The Impeachment of Abraham ...
3.70 avg rating — 2,707 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions
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Invisible: The Forgotten St...
3.68 avg rating — 1,718 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions
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Palace Council (Elm Harbor,...
3.66 avg rating — 1,504 ratings — published 2008 — 35 editions
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Back Channel
3.87 avg rating — 1,019 ratings — published 2014 — 15 editions
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Jericho's Fall
3.15 avg rating — 914 ratings — published 2009 — 17 editions
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The Culture of Disbelief: H...
3.74 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1993 — 18 editions
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INTEGRITY
3.70 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Civility
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“Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one’s fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park
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“Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.”
― Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park
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“On the opening day of law school at Yale, I always counsel my first-year students never to support a law they are not willing to kill to enforce. Usually they greet this advice with something between skepticism and puzzlement, until I remind them that the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.”
― Stephen L. Carter
tags: aggression, anarchy, coercion, collectivism, evil, freedom, law, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, violence, voluntaryism
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