My Grandfather's Son
A Memoir
Thomas, Clarence
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Clarence Thomas was born in Pinpoint, Georgia to an early life marked by poverty and hunger. His father left the family when Thomas was just one, leaving their teenage mother to raise him and his younger brother on the $10 a week she earned working as a maid. But the hardship was just too much. After moving from rural Pinpoint to urban Savannah, Thomas's mother decided that it was best to have 7–year–old Thomas and his brother live with her father, Myers Anderson, and step–mother in their comfortable Savannah home. It was a move that would forever change Thomas's life.
His grandfather, whom he called "Daddy," was a fuel oil salesman with a strict work ethic, but he was also a black man trying to raise a family in Georgia in the 1950s and 1960s, when racism and oppression still flared. Thomas witnessed the struggles of his grandparents in the face of futility, their perseverance through accumulated injustices, their hopefulness in the face of bigotry, and their unrequited love for a country that seemed to reject them at every turn. And as Thomas himself grew up, rising from his humble, disadvantaged roots to attend Holy Cross and Yale Law School, he too faced discrimination along the way. He would overcome depression, heated political battles in Washington, and the most contested public confirmation to the Supreme Court in history. Clarence Thomas's story is a moving, heartfelt tale of one man's journey, against all odds, to the highest court in the land.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0060565551
Dewey Decimal: 921
Library of Congress: 2007281324
Book Publisher: Harpercollins
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 2889
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