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Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution Audiobook, by Myron Magnet Play Audiobook Sample

Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution Audiobook

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Read By: John McLain Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781515949756

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

9

Longest Chapter Length:

53:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

23:32 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:08 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

When Clarence Thomas joined the Supreme Court in 1991, he found with dismay that it was interpreting a very different Constitution from the one the framers had written—the one that had established a federal government manned by the people's own elected representatives, charged with protecting citizens' inborn rights while leaving them free to work out their individual happiness themselves, in their families, communities, and states.

Thomas, had deep misgivings about the new governmental order. He shared the framers' vision of free, self-governing citizens forging their own fate. And from his own experience growing up in segregated Savannah, flirting with and rejecting black radicalism at college, and running an agency that supposedly advanced equality, he doubted that unelected experts and justices really did understand the moral arc of the universe better than the people themselves, or that the rules and rulings they issued made lives better rather than worse. So in the hundreds of opinions he has written in more than a quarter century on the Court, he has questioned the constitutional underpinnings of the new order and tried to restore the limited, self-governing original one, as more legitimate, more just, and more free than the one that grew up in its stead. The Court now seems set to move down the trail he blazed.

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About Myron Magnet

Myron Magnet was the editor of City Journal, the Manhattan Institute’s quarterly magazine of urban affairs, from 1994 to 2007 and is currently the editor-at-large. A former member of the board of editors of Fortune magazine, his work as a writer has covered a wide range of topics: American society and social policy, economics, corporate management, intellectual history and literature. Married and the father of two teenagers, he lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

About John McLain

John McLain is an actor, professional voice talent, and Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. On stage, he has appeared in The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Amahl & the Night Visitors, and The Music Man.