Integrity - William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Stephen L Carter

From presidential candidates to crusading journalists to the lords of collegiate sports, everybody promises to deliver integrity, yet all too often those promises go unfulfilled. All of us are in favor of it, but no one seems to know how to make sure that we get it.aIn Integrity, Stephen Carter: - turns his critical eye to the mystery of why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American political imagination.- explains why integrity is first in importance among the elements of good character.- explains why it is so hard to attain.- weaves together insights from philosophy, theology, history, and law, with examples drawn from current events and personal experience.- offers a vision of integrity that has implications for everything from marriage and politics to professional football.- discusses the difficulties involved in trying to legislate integrity as well as the possibilities for teaching it.aIntegrity presents a frank examination of the national mood and concludes that unless we find ways to place integrity at the center of both our private and our public lives, the American ideal may crumble-and the greatness of our democracy along with it.