My grandfather's son : a memoir /
Clarence Thomas.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Harper, c2007.
- xii, 289 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Sun to sun -- As good as us -- The corridor -- No room at the top -- The golden handcuffs -- Question of will -- "Son, stand up" -- Approaching the bench -- Invitation to a lynching -- Going to meet the man.
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.