Stephen Carter

Stephen Carter talks about his novel The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln. It takes as its starting point an alternate history: President Abraham Lincoln survives the assassination attempt at Ford’s Theatre. Two years later he is charged with overstepping his constitutional authority and faces an impeachment trial. A young black woman working at the law firm that has undertaken Lincoln’s defense finds herself in a web of intrigue and conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the government.

Bestselling author Stephen Carter on his latest novel, Jericho’s Fall, which tells the story of Jericho Ainsley, former head of the CIA and a Wall Street titan, a man who spent his life uncovering and keeping secrets, who may be now be losing his mind.

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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor grew up in the projects in the Bronx, then went on to Princeton and Yale Law School before working as a Manhattan DA and then a federal judge. Ya...