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The acclaimed author of The Culture of Disbelief turns his critical eye to the mystery of why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American political imagination.

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From the author of the bestsellers "The Emperor of Ocean Park" and "New England White, " an electrifying, provocative alternative history novel that asks the question: What would have happened had Lincoln not been assassinated?

The impressive advances in all branches of medical science during the first half of this century with the discovery of many chemotherapeutic or immunogenic agents gave rise to brilliant achievements in the struggle against some infectious diseases and aroused in many scientists the wishful thought that drugs for cancer therapy would, soon lead to additional great success. Notwithstanding ever-increasing worldwide endeavors, the major problems ...

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This study concentrates on The Devils, but also places this novel in the total context of Dostoevsky's work. Also considered is the life and work of T.N. Granovsky, who is satirised along with Turgenev in the novel, and thus offers a useful basis on which to delineate the contours of Dostoevsky's thought.

The outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis depends on one woman.

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October 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a "back channel" by way of a clandestine emissary. The fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of that emissary, nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore Margo Jensen. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, a...

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-> Akte X - Der Film (USA/Kanada 1998, 118 Min., FSK 12): Vor 37.000 Jahren wurde ein tödliches Geheimnis in einer Höhle in Texas begraben. Jetzt wurde das Geheimnis entfesselt. Diese Entdeckung könnte das Ende der gesamten Menschheit bedeuten. Bei den Ermittlungen im Fall eines mysteriösen Bombenattentats auf ein Bürogebäude in Dallas werden die FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder und Dana Scully in die gefährlichste Verschwörung ihrer Karriere v...

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In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seabord—families who summer at Martha's Vineyard—and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. Talcott Garland is a successful law professor, devoted father, and husband of a beautiful and ambi...

El nuevo thriller del autor de El emperador de Ocean Park Del autor de El emperador de Ocean Park llega un nuevo y absorbente thriller político ambientado durante la guerra de Vietnam y la administración Nixon. Philmont Castle lo tenía todo: dinero, prestigio y contactos. Nadie habría podido imaginar que acabaría muerto en un aparcamiento aferrado a una misteriosa cruz. Una noche, tras asistir a una fiesta de la alta sociedad negra de Harlem, ...

A gripping, nationally bestselling political thriller set against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect to fall prey to a murderer, but then his body is found on the grounds of a Harlem mansion by the young writer Eddie Wesley, who along with the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, is pulled into a twenty-year search...

Two lesser characters from Carter's bestselling first novel, "The Emperor of Ocean Park"--husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle--take center stage in this compelling, literate page-turner that blends a gripping whodunit with complex discussions of politics and race in contemporary America.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest, " said Joseph Smith. Good thing, because Stephen Carter's religious life is full of contradictions. "Sometimes the priesthood is a wonderful thing to me, " he writes. "Other times, it's an oppressive weight. Sometimes I can feel the binding power of the temple. Other times, it seems only to cut me off from my loved ones. My mission was at once an elating and awful time." A Cub Scout fishing trip r...