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January 8, 2009

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My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir

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Author: Clarence Thomas
Publisher: Harper
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

(314 reviews)
Sales Rank: 22401

Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.3

ISBN: 0060565551
Dewey Decimal Number: 921
EAN: 9780060565558
ASIN: 0060565551

Publication Date: October 1, 2007
Release Date: October 1, 2007
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I highly recommend this book -- a 'must' read. August 7, 2008
I bought this book out of boredom. I had nothing else, at the time, to read. I thought that I knew enough of this gentleman from newspapers and media. Was I ever wrong! This is book will enlighten one as to who the real Clarence Thomas is and the grandfather who became a role model for him. His portrayals of various members of Congress are indeed enlightening!
I no longer have the book. I had lent it out so many times that it finally never found its way back to me.

4 out of 5 stars

Same experiences, Different conclusions August 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

Clarence Thomas is a brilliant man, much like my husband. Both experienced similar experiences, but drew different conclusions from their experiences.

This book is very personable and well-written. However, the inside print design could have been better laid out.

4 out of 5 stars

Highly readable memoir of a remarkable journey August 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

As an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Thomas sits in a position of tremendous influence, one that ultimately issues binding opinions on the very meaning of the oldest working Constitution in the world. Many people assume that reaching such heights requires the head start afforded by wealth and powerful connections. Justice Thomas' remarkable story of his origin and rise demonstrates that such is not necessarily the case. Sometimes those who come from the most humble backgrounds can through hard work and perseverance achieve what might normally be imagined impossible.

Thomas opens his narrative with a statement that will be familiar to far too many of our fellow citizens: "I was nine years old when I first met my father." We're introduced to the rest of his family in turn, including his brother and mother. Apparently unable to handle two young boys and a job that did not pay well on her own--her ex-husband and the father of her children did nothing to help--she sent young Clarence and his brother Myers to live with her parents, whom Thomas calls Aunt Tina (Christine being his grandmother's given name) and Daddy.

The move ultimately proved a good one for Thomas; under the supervision of his strict grandfather, he learned discipline and how to work hard, starting to help with the family business when in the fourth grade. Descriptions of his early interactions with the world beyond his family and in the educational system remind us that the color of one's skin had real meaning at one time in this country whose founding document declared that "all men are created equal"--particularly in the deep South.

Readers are taken on a tour through Thomas' past, able to see how the family of even meager means was able to put him on good footing by teaching him important principles that would serve him well and by proving equal to the task of getting him educated. Thomas' commentary give us insights into his thinking at various stages of his life, how he came to see the larger world around him and how he progressed from good student to angry black man, and from there to finding a productive outlet for his talent.

This narrative leads through Thomas' life course, taking us ultimately to the Senate confirmation hearings for his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. The episode is tremendously stressful for him and his family; we're able to see that irrespective of whatever principles one might have or how one has tried to apply them, getting to the top requires endurance--and sometimes endurance of ugly and miserable things. Achievement is never easy but achievement on one's own terms, where others cannot take the credit, is something even more.

Clarence Thomas has a remarkable story and has told it well in My Grandfather's Son.

5 out of 5 stars

A must Read July 15, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

If anyone you know tells you they can't make it in America buy this book for them and tell them to read it.

5 out of 5 stars

Thought-provoking July 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas' life story is interesting for two reasons: because it doesn't have a word of self-aggrandizement in it, and because it so clearly contrasts the fallacies of the victim culture with the rewards of a constant effort at self-improvement. The author is very candid about his personal shortcomings, some of which, especially in his youth, are glaring and obvious. To me, the major contribution of this book is to provide incontrovertible evidence that America still is one of the best places on the planet to grow up in as what is termed a `disadvantaged child'. Justice Thomas is living proof of this fact. At the same time, his autobiography contains an implicit warning against moving down the road that Europe has been on for the past sixty years: that of a culture government dependency, personal irresponsability, and rampant nepotism in all aspects of society. A thought-provoking book.

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