Dec 18, 2009

The Way It Felt to Be Falling | What Do I Read Next?

In Edwards’s story, Stephen says that he is going to skydive because his personal integrity is at stake, and then he backs out at the last minute, although he lies about his jump. In Stephen Carter’s Integrity (1996), the author poses questions about the degradation of personal integrity in society and offers an eight-principle program for a return to traditional ethics, especially in democracies like the United States.

John Forbes Nash Jr. is a schizophrenic who is also a Nobel Prize–winning economist. In A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr....