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Supreme bias.(Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas)(Book review)
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher (Doubleday, 422 pp., $26.95)
IN their new biography, the Washington Post's Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher examine, largely through the prism of race, the life of Justice Clarence Thomas. Between the opening and closing chapters--both of which explore the enmity that many blacks hold toward Thomas--Supreme Discomfort provides a mostly chronological narrative of Thomas's life, including his upbringing in Georgia, his years at Holy Cross and Yale Law School, his "meteoric rise" in the Reagan administration, and the searing 1991 confirmation hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court. It also includes seven chapters on various aspects of his years as a justice.
Merida and Fletcher purport to offer an ...
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