Showdown: Thurgood Marshall And The Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
by Wil Haygood · 2015
Buy on Amazon"The author of The Butler presents a revelatory biography of the first African-American Supreme Court justice--one of the giants of the civil rights movement, and one of the most transforming Supreme Court justices of the 20th century,"--Novelist.
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"This account of Thurgood Marshall's fight for justice and the struggle for civil rights aligns with Ta-Nehisi Coates's deep exploration of American history, race, and power."
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"It is no small feat to weave a rich, compelling book out of a Senate Judiciary confirmation (I suspect some might yawn even just reading that sentence) but it helps when the year is 1967 and the subject is late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American to serve on the high court. It also helps when the writer is Wil Haygood, who has a knack for injecting drama and spark into legal and legislative proceedings. Within the framework of the fiery five-day hearing, Haygood uses Marshall’s career as a lens to explore the complexities and contradictions of American race relations."
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