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The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
Doubleday
May 2007
On Sale: April 24, 2007
432 pages
ISBN: 0385510802
EAN: 9780385510806
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
SUPREME DISCOMFORT originated from a much-commented-upon
profile of Clarence Thomas that appeared in an August 2002
issue of The Washington Post Magazine. In it, Kevin Merida
and Michael Fletcher, both Post staffers, both black,
crafted a haunting portrait of an isolated and bitter 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 elite educational institutions to the pinnacle of
judicial power. He has clearly never recovered from the
searing experience of his Senate confirmation hearings and
the "he said/she said" drama of the accusations of sexual
harassment by Anita Hill. SUPREME DISCOMFORT tracks the personal odyssey of perhaps
the least understood man in Washington, from his poor
childhood in Pin Point and Savannah, Georgia, to his
educational experiences in a Catholic seminary and Holy
Cross, to his law school years at Yale during the black
power era, to his rise within the Republican political
establishment. It offers a 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.
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