AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Ted Cruz makes the case for Clarence Thomas in new book built on nine hours of interviews
Sen. Ted Cruz is betting that the full story of Justice Clarence Thomas, from rural Georgia poverty to the nation's longest-tenured sitting justice, is one most Americans have never actually heard, and he spent nine hours with Thomas to tell it. Cruz, R-Texas, appeared on Newsmax's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" to discuss his […] The post Ted Cruz makes the case for Clarence Thomas in new book built on nine hours of interviews appeared first on American Almanac .
Sen. Ted Cruz is betting that the full story of Justice Clarence Thomas, from rural Georgia poverty to the nation's longest-tenured sitting justice, is one most Americans have never actually heard, and he spent nine hours with Thomas to tell it. Cruz, R-Texas, appeared on Newsmax's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren" to discuss his new 336-page book, Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas, published by Sentinel the day before. The book draws on exclusive sit-down interviews Cruz conducted with the 78-year-old justice, conversations the senator says cover Thomas' childhood, his intellectual formation, and three decades of Supreme Court opinions that have reshaped American constitutional law. Cruz told Newsmax the project has…Open