In 2002, Kiwi Camara, a Filipino-American student studying at the Harvard Law School, joined most of his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year on the school website. But in his notes, Camara had used shorthand terms that some regarded as racial slurs. In the furor that followed, administrators proposed a speech [...]

In this unauthorized biography, the most authoritative ever written about the controversial Supreme Court Justice, Andrew Peyton Thomas (no relation) explores Clarence Thomas’ remarkable rise from a childhood of poverty in segregated Georgia to the nation’s highest court. In his attempt to understand what drives the elusive and sometimes enigmatic Justice, the author located and [...]