Clarence Page: Clarence Thomas’ American Dream — with a little help from his friends

If you live long enough to see your heroes deposed from their former glory by the exposure of long-hidden truths, it can make you feel as though, maybe, you have lived too long.

I had heard of Horatio Alger, but not the Association of Distinguished Americans that was named after him — until I heard that their honored members included Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. And that would not have mattered a lot to me if Thomas