He's powerful. He's conservative. His daddy was an oil man. He found God and stopped drinking in middle age. The certainty and simplicity of his world view infuriate his many opponents. George Bush? No. The autobiography that is making the American left wobble with rage this week is by Justice Clarence Thomas, the only black member of the Supreme Court. Mr Thomas was paid $1.5m for a memoir that stops dead the moment he joined the court in 1991. About his 16 years working there, he is silent. Perhaps he is planning a second volume. In the meantime, his account of the first 43 years of his life is absorbing and sometimes moving.
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