Behind the News: On Clarence Thomas w/ Corey Robin
Jacobin Radio
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The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson
"There's a lot more to this character than that caricature, right? Yeah, definitely. But what attracted you to writing about him in the first place?" he says. "This self just leapt off the page and grabbed you strongly." He grew up very much at the bottom of the class ladder, 'and that left market in forever' His grandfather is a complicated figure here because on one hand, he was self-made.
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