Transcript: Clarence Thomas Book Portrays a Tortured Soul

SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
09-29-2007
Clarence Thomas Book Portrays a Tortured Soul

Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 13:00-14:00 PM


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For the first since he took his seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken out in vivid detail about events surrounding his nomination battle, the charges of sexual harassment against him by Anita Hill and his memories of being reared by his grandfather in rural Georgia.

The justice has written a book called "My Grandfather's Son" in which he says he was pursued by a mob of liberal activist groups and reporters. He says, I was being pursued, not ...

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