Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary

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This New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 1998, is now in trade paper.

From the bestselling writer of Eyes at the Prize, here is the definitive biography of the great lawyer and Supreme Court justice.
Washington Post correspondent and TV commentator Juan Williams has produced an illuminating take a look at a true giant of 20th-century American politics. Williams retells the story of Thurgood Marshall’s successful desegregation of public schools within the U.S. with his victory on the subject of Brown v. Board of Education, followed by his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1967 for a 24-year term. But he also recounts how W.E.B. Du Bois, then the head of the NAACP, gave a cold shoulder to the more youthful Marshall (who sooner or later helped oust Du Bois from the organization), and describes the tug of war between Marshall and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in addition to the mind games Lyndon Johnson played on Marshall before nominating him for the Supreme Court. Readers also learn about Marshall’s relationship with his replacement, Clarence Thomas, which was once surprisingly civil given their contrary views on affirmative action. Williams has captured many examples of Thurgood Marshall’s heroism and humanity on this comprehensive yet readable biography of a complex, combative, and courageous civil rights figure. –Eugene Holley Jr.

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