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Going Further · Clay & Buck Recommendations

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  Speaker 1: Book is called Going Further, The Incomparable Clarence Thomas. It
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  Speaker 1: came out just a couple of weeks ago. It immediately
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  Speaker 1: shot to number one on the New York Times bestseller list.
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  Speaker 2: What this book does, it is based.
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  Speaker 1: On nine and a half hours of one-on-one exclusive interviews
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  Speaker 1: with Justice Thomas. I've known Justice Thomas for over 30 years.
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  Speaker 1: What I do in this book is really three things.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, tell his incredible life story, starting from abject
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  Speaker 1: poverty in rural Georgia, starting with nothing, facing massive racism,
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  Speaker 1: and ascending to the very pinnacle of American law. No
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  Speaker 1: justice in American history has traveled a journey like Clarence
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  Speaker 1: Thomas has.
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, though, I trace his ideological journey.
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  Speaker 1: When he was a young man in college and law school,
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  Speaker 1: he was an angry left-wing radical. He wore camouflage pants.
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  Speaker 1: He had Malcolm X on the wall and wore combat boots.
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  Speaker 1: He went to Black Panther rallies. He participated in a
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  Speaker 1: riot in Harvard Square. And I chronicle the journey of
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  Speaker 1: going from angry left-wing radical to becoming one of the
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  Speaker 1: most important conservative thinkers to have ever lived.
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  Speaker 2: It will also reiterate, if you needed to have