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Supreme discomfort : the divided soul of Clarence Thomas / Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher.
Van Pelt Library KF8745.T48 M47 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merida, Kevin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Clarence, 1948-.
- Thomas, Clarence.
- United States. Supreme Court--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Supreme Court.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- African American judges.
- African American judges--Biography.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 422 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2007]
- Summary:
- Tracks the personal odyssey of perhaps the least understood man in Washington, from his poor childhood in Pin Point and Savannah, Georgia, to his educational experiences in a Catholic seminary and Holy Cross, to his law school years at Yale during the Black Power era, to his rise within the Republican political establishment. It offers a window into a man who straddles two different worlds and is uneasy in both--and whose divided personality and conservative political philosophy will deeply influence American life for years to come. This book originated from a profile of Clarence Thomas that appeared in The Washington Post Magazine. In it, Merida and Fletcher, both Post staffers, both black, crafted a haunting portrait of an isolated and bitter man, savagely reviled by much of the black community yet not entirely comfortable in white society.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Courting venom : being Clarence Thomas
- The Pin Point myth
- The Savannah reality
- Myers, Leola, and Emma
- "Radical" times
- The making of a conservative
- Meteoric rise
- Who lied?
- The aftermath : Thomas's love affair with the right
- Cruel and unusual punishment
- Marshall's footprints
- Inside the court
- Silent justice
- Scalia's clone?
- The quiet, anonymous life
- Expectations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-407) and index.
- Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - Nonfiction , Honor, 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780385510806
- 0385510802
- OCLC:
- 74965145
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