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My Grandfather's Son
At the end of the 2nd of 9 CDs (12 hours), he is about a 20 or 21 year old junior at Holy Cross College, and he just discovered "Ann Rand." He says he did not accept all the tenets of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, but it made much sense of the world. It was clear that he got some major benefits from reading her novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, particularly the latter, for the importance and advantages of being an individualist. He read Fountainhead at a time when he was just starting to reject the socialist ideas so prevalent on campus and among his few fellow black classmates and protesters. Yes, protesters, he did quite a bit of that and was quite radical.
The portrait of his grandfather and the ideas and habits Thomas learned from this "barely literate man who had only a third grade education," but became a proud, independent businessman, who raised Clarence Thomas and his brother with his loving wife, when Thomas's mother was just
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Clarence Thomas: A Biography
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