Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
- ISBN-10
- 0767916360
- ISBN-13
- 9780767916363
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 426
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Broadway
- Authors
- Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher
Description
Based on a 2002 profile of the controversial Supreme Court justice from The Washington Post Magazine, a portrait of Clarence Thomas traces the personal odyssey of the African-American justice from his poor, rural Georgia upbringing to the pinnacle of judicial power, capturing a bitter, isolated, and conflicted man forced to straddle two different worlds. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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