My grandfather's son
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Clarence Thomas
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780060565558
Subjects: African American judges; Judges; Officials and employees; United States. Supreme Court; United States; Biography
Description: The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and his struggles to acquire an education, to his publicly contested confirmation to the nation's highest court.
Table of contents: title: Sun to sun; title: As good as us; title: The corridor; title: No room at the top; title: The golden handcuffs; title: Question of will; title: "Son, stand up"; title: Approaching the bench; title: Invitation to a lynching; title: Going to meet the man.