Judging Thomas (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ken Foskett
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: The latter half of the twentieth century to 2004
- Setting: Georgia, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.
- Principal Characters: Clarence Thomas, Myers Anderson, M. C. Thomas, Leona Thomas, Kathy Ambush, Virginia Lamp, John Danforth, Anita Hill
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, Twentieth century, Twenty-first century, Conservatism, Judges, Courts or courtrooms
- Locales: Georgia, Washington, D.C., Missouri
Clarence Thomas was the second African American Supreme Court justice and the first who was a conservative. The distinction is critical to understanding his career and the controversy surrounding it. Ken Foskett's Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas provides a clear and readable account of the influences that shaped Thomas from his childhood through his appointment to the Supreme Court. Although it does not definitively explain the greatest controversy in Thomas's confirmation hearings, it is a compelling account of an independent thinker whose views have...
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