About this title: "USA Today" hailed Carter's last novel as the perfect summer read. Now the bestselling author of "New England White" is back with a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780307266583ISBN:0307266583
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex) Library Copy. Moderate wear on Cover/Interior Pages. Usual library markings. (W3) Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 513 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008-07-08
ISBN-13:9780307266583ISBN:0307266583
Description: New. New, unread, unused & in perfect condition with no damaged or missing pages. This is a pre-release paperback with plain cover. This book is the same isbn, but is a paperback. Great Copy. Ships Lightning Fast. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2008
Description: Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BT3-An uncorrected proof softcover in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. Suspenseful, provocative, and witty, Palace Council turns our assumptions inside out and reminds us how the struggles of that era set the stage for America today. 9"x6", 513 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2008-07-08
ISBN-13:9780307266583ISBN:0307266583
Description: Very Good in Like New jacket. Ex-library has clear mylar cover and usual library markings. Pages are clean and in excellent condition. read more
Edition: First edition. First Edition as stated with date.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780307266583ISBN:0307266583
"a moderately interesting political thriller set in the 60s, so there's speechwriting for kennedy and being friends with langston hughes and such. unfortunately, the only real character in the book is the plot - neither of the two main characters ever have much nuance besides their devotion to advancing the story. and the plot is super convoluted with literary and botanical clues and... blah."
"Stephen L. Carter's Palace Council is a wonderful mystery/thriller novel. The majority of the novel takes place in and with characters from Upper-Class Harlem. This in itself was extremely interesting, as the Harlem I know is from what I've seen living nearby, and from the likes of James Baldwin and others. Carter's mystery was so intelligent. He beats Dan Brown any day (I still enjoy Brown's novels). Brown will give the reader multiple blunt red herrings and then will have a Scooby Doo type ending. Carter's novel is much more sophisticated and well crafted. Every twist and turn was well thought out, subtle and made sense in the end. As perfect of a mystery novel that I have read thus far."
"Heavy-going conspiracy. Plan by 20 powerful men to manipulate the US, it tells us on the jacket. Good thing too, because you have to get 400 pages in before you have any idea what the Palace Council might be up to. Writer Eddie Wesley stumbles on a dead body and into a deadly intrigue. Shortly after, his sister Junie disappears, apparently having joined an underground terrorist group. The two events are linked to the Palace Council. Action spans 20 years and includes figures such as JFK, Richard Nixon and J Edgar Hoover but we're so in the dark through most of it that it's easy to lose interest. There's a difference between keeping readers hooked and leaving them floundering for hundreds of pages. And what's so unusual about a group of wealthy men wanting to control the country? Happens every day, surely."
"Part mystery, part political thriller, this book traces a political conspiracy from the early 1950s through the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. The main character is a Harlem author who is investigating his sister's disappearance. In addition to being a page-turner, the book provides insight into social change in Harlem in the 1950s and 60s, as well as looking at the legacy of the period's radical movements for all of America."
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