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There is no more powerful, detested, misunderstood African American in our public life than Clarence Thomas. "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas" is a haunting portrait of anisolated and complex man, savagely reviled by much of the black community, not entirely comfortable in white society, internally wounded by his passage from a broken family and rural poverty in Georgia, to eliteeducational institutions, to the pinnacle of judicial power. His staunchly conservative positions on crime, abortion, and, especially, affirmative action have exposed him to charges of heartlessness and hypocrisy, in thathe is himself the product of a broken home who manifestly benefited from racially conscious admissions policies.
"Supreme Discomfort" is a superbly researched and reported work thatfeatures testimony from friends and foes alike who have never spoken in public about Thomas before-including a candid conversation with his fellow justice and ideological ally, Antonin Scalia. It offers along-overdue window into a man who straddles two different worlds and is uneasy in both-and whose divided personality and conservative political philosophy will deeply influence American life for years to come.