Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas by Ted Cruz — a timely, authoritative portrait of one of the most consequential and often misunderstood figures in American legal history.
For more than three decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law. He has endured intense criticism while writing some of the Supreme Court’s most distinctive, accessible, and influential opinions. His insistence that the Constitution — not merely judicial precedent — is the highest authority has reshaped modern jurisprudence.
Senator Ted Cruz draws on his own Supreme Court clerkship, years as an advocate before the Court, and a decades-long friendship with Justice Thomas to tell this story. Based on nine hours of exclusive, wide-ranging interviews, Cruz traces Thomas’s journey from crushing poverty in segregated Georgia, through early encounters with racism and a brief period of radical left-wing politics, to his emergence as a leading originalist and defender of constitutional self-government.
Going Further examines how those formative experiences forged a lifelong commitment to independence, self-reliance, and truth. From Thomas’s early studies toward the priesthood to his role as an intellectual force on the Court, the book makes the case for why his life, ideas, and courage matter now more than ever.
A powerful and personal account of a justice whose influence on American constitutional law is undeniable.
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