U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz will chronicle the life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a new biography.
Sentinel, a conservative imprint of Penguin Random House, will publish the Texas Republican’s Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas in the summer, the press announced in a news release. It calls the book “a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law.”
Cruz, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Supreme Court, once clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and was solicitor general of Texas. He has long been an admirer of Thomas, last year calling him “a patriot, an intellectual giant, and the living embodiment of the American Dream.” Thomas, who consistently votes with the court’s conservative majority, has served as an associate justice since 1991; his Senate confirmation was almost derailed due to allegations that he sexually harassed lawyer Anita Hill.
Cruz’s book, Sentinel says, “traces Clarence Thomas’s life and lasting impact on constitutional law—and why his ideas matter now more than ever.”
“Drawing on nine hours of exclusive personal interviews with the Justice, Cruz reveals how Thomas’s most formative early experiences—like growing up in crushing poverty in segregated Georgia, his early encounters with extreme racism, and his brief stint in radical left-wing politics—forged a lifelong commitment to independence, self-reliance, and truth,” the publisher says.
Going Further is slated for publication on Aug. 25.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
