Title: First Principles
First published: December 1, 1998
Description: "Clarence Thomas is one of the most vilified public figures of our day. Time magazine has called him "Uncle Tom Justice" and famed columnist Nat Hentoff accuses him of "having done more damage, more quickly, than any Supreme Court justice in history.""--BOOK JACKET.

"What is perhaps most remarkable about Justice Thomas's Supreme Court tenure to date is that, despite the fact that he will be influencing American law for generations to come, his legal philosophy has received only cursory treatment. Scott Douglas Gerber seeks to remedy this state of affairs by casting aside facile, visceral assessments of Thomas - from both the left and the right.

Gerber takes on the formidable task of providing a portrait of Thomas based not on the justice's caricatured reputation but on his judicial opinions and votes, his scholarly writings, and his public speeches."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Judges, Law and politics, Officials and employees, Political questions and judicial power, United States. Supreme Court, United States, Selection and appointment, Biography, Law, Political aspects, Thomas, clarence, 1948-, United states, supreme court, Law, political aspects, Judges, biography
Places: United States
People: Clarence Thomas (1948-)
LC classification: KF8745.T48 G47 1999