Stephen L. Carter is a professor of Constitutional Law at Yale and a commentator on race and religion in America. A few years ago, Carter wrote the very smart and bestselling murder mystery The Emperor of Ocean Park. His new book, New England White, is also a thriller, and revolves around a prominent black family living in a picture-perfect, nearly all-white enclave near an Ivy League university.
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