Posted on 01/04/2008 7:25:41 AM PST by jdm
I read the book when it first came out.
I also gave Juan Williams a new consideration after reading it, but I still cannot stand the man for his irrational remarks on FNS whenever I get to see it.
I remain shocked that Justice Thomas was still paying off school loans during the nomination process.
I also read this book over the holidays. It was very good reading. Interesting how his grandfather bucked the system and was a Catholic in the South...and raised his grandsons Catholic.
I understand that Justice Thomas has since returned to the faith of his childhood.
Loved the book as well.
I was unaware that he went far left while in college.
Many brave black men fought under the Confederate flag. Not taking away from Thomas’ experience in Georgia, but other men and women do not feel the same as him.
But you are taking away from Thomas and you are missing the point, johnny one note.
I do have to get this book.
Might be a good read - thanks for your post.
When we rose to leave at the end of the evening, the entire restaurant erupted in a spontaneous standing ovation. We also found out later that several patrons had offered to pick up our very substantial tab, but Senator Hatch had insisted on paying.
Tears came to my eyes when I read that in Justice Thomas' book, My Grandfather's Son, and tears came to my eyes again just now, as I read your recounting of it here.
I watched the Thomas hearings, and I know what that spontaneous show of support must have meant to him, and to those with him.
Every Conservative who watched those confirmation hearings had to have become emotionally invested in them,if they weren't from the beginning, as I was. They were worse than the Bork hearings. Everything I've ever suspected, believed, or thought I knew about the vicious, slimy, unconscionable, lengths, and depths, to which the left will go to advance and protect their political control and power was played out before my eyes, and confirmed in spades, during the Thomas hearings...and that's saying a LOT.
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I was very surprised -- and pleased -- to hear him say that he hasn't read a newspaper in almost 15 years.
I couldn’t put it down. Passing it around to all in my family. What a role model for all young men.
That last paragraph echoed my thoughts exactly.
Your tagline echoes mine. : )
It is an excellent read. I think you will be glad to have read it.
I gave copies as Christmas gifts.
I want to get the audio version of this book to listen to on my commute, but it is unavailable on audible.com and iTunes. Any idea why?
My 21-yr.old son asked for this book for Christmas. He started it Christmas night and said it was one of the best books he’d read. I thank God he has the intellegence to understand and accept the conservative principles he was raised with. My 19 yr. old daughter is a bit more of a project for me. She is more easily swayed by popular opinion, and less of a critical thinker. Perhaps my son will lend her Justice Thomas’s book.
I read the book over the holidays. Clarence Thomas should be an inspiration to everybody especially blacks.
i read it and also was amazed at what i didn’t know about Justice Thomas. Great book. i am going to lend it to a black friend of mine, for her to read as well as her grandsons. i told her it was an amazingly inspirational story. i had her read Juan Williams book, Enough, and she was impressed with it. She is not a republican, but she is reasonable.
Everyone--get a copy of this book and read it. It is full of the unexpected! The ironies of Thomas's prose--and of his life--would make Jane Austin herself sit up and take notice--and take notes! Many times I found myself laughing at the sheer irony of it all!
Clarence Thomas is a great man.
He was propelled to greatness, almost in spite of himself (and his wishes), by his own inherent intelligence, benevolence, and love of truth, justice, and humanity.
Anyone who, like Clarence Thomas, seeks truth for its own sake, will find himself in strange and unexpected places and among strange and unexpected people. This is one thing that makes his book so fascinating--but only one thing of many.
He reveres his grandfather and considers him the greatest man he has ever known. Thomas does not speak casually in superlatives.
Real love, Thomas says (and I paraphrase), values discipline over affection. Those of us who have contended with staggering difficulties and formidable demons will find ourselves envying Thomas the magnificent guidance of his grandfather--and his step-grandmother--and his wife, whom he adores (and we can well understand)--and Clarence Thomas himself!
Thomas's triumph over staggering difficulties, in retrospect, seems as inevitable as fate, considering the inherent personal qualities that made it possible, but his life is a blueprint for the triumph of anyone over anything. He seems to be wanting to share the secret of triumph with all people; the wise will take his advice and example to heart and run with them to their own triumphs.
His triumphs are triumphs of the human spirit. He offers his lessons to everyone.
I too came away with a renewed respect for Juan Williams--and also for Jack Danforth and Orin Hatch.
I came away with a renewed contempt for those who thwarted Justice Thomas--notably the politicians et al. who attempted to block his appointment to the Supreme Court.
Clarence Thomas is a man of brilliant intelligence and a love of truth and justice and of humanity that is utterly magnificent.
Of all the famous people paraded before us in this Information Age, Clarence Thomas is one of whom I would like to know personally.
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