Supreme Discomfort The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas

Name: Supreme Discomfort The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
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ISBN: 9780767916363

ISBN-10: 0767916360

ISBN-13: 9780767916363

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Authors: Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher

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There is no more powerful, detested, misunderstood African American in our public life than Clarence Thomas.Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomasis a haunting portrait of an isolated and complex man, savagely reviled by much of the black community, not entirely comfortable in white society, internally wounded by his passage from a broken family and rural poverty in Georgia, to elite educational institutions, to the pinnacle of judicial power. His staunchly conservative positions on crime, abortion, and, especially, affirmative action have exposed him to charges of heartlessness and hypocrisy, in that he is himself the product of a broken home who manifestly benefited from…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Prologue



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


Epilogue


Authors' Note


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index