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Raised in a world of stultifying expectations about race and gender, Carter's grandmother's professional and political successes had made her one of the most famous black women in America by the 1940s. But her triumphs were shadowed by prejudice and tragedy.

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Nearly 14 percent of working age Americans are either starting or running a business. 50 percent of those businesses will fail in five years or decline over 70 percent after ten years. Starting a company is no walk in the park- it takes confidence and heart, but most of all, it takes planning and understanding what exactly your business needs to succeed in its niche. The worst thing you can do when taking that leap to start a business ...

The author of the provocative books The Culture of Disbelief and Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby sheds new light on the process that has manufactured such public fiascoes as the Clarence Thomas hearings and the Lani Guinier travesty. "A lesson in the perils of the reforming spirit".-- Commentary.

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother's extraordinary life 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 p...

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From the author of "The Culture of Disbelief" comes an eloquent diagnosis of what ails the body politic--the unwillingness of people in power to hear disagreement unless forced to--and a prescription for a new process of response.

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From the author of the bestsellers "The Emperor of Ocean Park" and "New England White, " an electrifying and provocative historical novel set in an alternate history in which Abraham Lincoln survives assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.

The acclaimed author of "The Culture of Disbelief" proves to readers that manners matter to the future of America.

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, Eddie Wesley, joven promesa de la literatura, descubre el cadáver accidentalmente. Cuando, poco después, su hermana Junie se ve involucrada en las actividades de grupos políticos clandestinos y desaparece sin d...

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.

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?

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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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