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Integrity
Why do we care more about winning than about playing by the rules?
Integrity - all of us are in favor of it, but nobody seems to know how to make sure that we get it. From presidential candidates to crusading journalists to the lords of collegiate sports, everybody promises to deliver integrity, yet all too often, the promises go unfulfilled.
Stephen Carter examines why
...morePaperback, 288 pages
Published
December 19th 1996
by Harper Perennial
(first published 1996)
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What I most enjoy about Stephen Carter is his ability to write plainly yet persuasively. That's amazing because he's a bona fide intellectual - a law professor - and most of the intellectual types I've read are horrible writers. But not Carter, God bless him.
I've read his first book, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, and I liked it, though I did not agree with all his points. But I learned quite a bit, and enjoyed his insights. He tries his best to be evenhanded, more so tha...more
I've read his first book, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby, and I liked it, though I did not agree with all his points. But I learned quite a bit, and enjoyed his insights. He tries his best to be evenhanded, more so tha...more
This book is written on the premise that in order to be an integral person you must discern whats right, act on it, and then reflect on that action.
It gives an interesting definition on what it means to be 'íntegral'. I can't say that I agree with Carter on all levels. He talks about marriage and divorce with regards to integrity and that is where my personal beliefs vary from his.
Overall it was an ok book.
It gives an interesting definition on what it means to be 'íntegral'. I can't say that I agree with Carter on all levels. He talks about marriage and divorce with regards to integrity and that is where my personal beliefs vary from his.
Overall it was an ok book.
First of an intended 3-book series, Carter defines integrity and gives many examples of success and failure attributed to it. The author explores marriage, politics, sports and other familiar areas in his examination. A fairly easy read that contains some thought-provoking insights.
I read this book many years ago and hardly remember it, which is not a recommendation. It reads like an earnest and well-meaning person trying to puzzle out ethical dilemmas for himself, which is admirable but not great reading.
Really strong thought process and framework for considering how to live an integral life. Generally, though, the book has spots where he is clearly writing like the Ivy League law faculty member that he is, which creates very unwieldly examples. He also develops aside soliloquies that do not illuminate his point. Even as an attorney, I found some of it a bit dry, and while I appreciate that he was not trying to tell the reader how to lead an integral life, but simply creating a framework to c...more
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I am finding this book to be very interesting. Today you meet so few people with any personal integrity - it's scary.
A tremendous writer. Clear and serious.
I hate this book. It is actually quite religious and Christian-centric in nature, though it claims not to be.
Changed my life and paradigms of who I am and how I see the world!
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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 NAA...more
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