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.
Summary:
"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 and finally to the pinnacle of judicial power." -- back cover.
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