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Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas by Ted Cruz

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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law

For over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme Court's history. His insistence that the Constitution, not merely judicial precedent, is the highest authority has reshaped American jurisprudence, and his lasting impact on the trajectory of constitutional law is undeniable.

In this powerful and timely book, Senator Ted Cruz draws on his own Supreme Court clerkship, on his many years as a Supreme Court advocate, and on his now decades-long friendship with Justice Thomas to paint a portrait of one of the most consequential—and misunderstood—Americans in our nation's history. Drawing on nine hours of exclusive, wide-ranging, and deeply personal one-on-one interviews with the Justice, Cruz reveals how Thomas's most formative early experiences—like growing up in crushing poverty in segregated Georgia, his early encounters with extreme racism, and his brief stint in radical left-wing politics—forged a lifelong commitment to independence, self-reliance, and truth.

From Thomas's early years studying to be a priest to his role today as the intellectual force behind some of the Court's most significant decisions, Going Further traces the formation of one of our Constitution's staunchest defenders and makes a rousing argument about why his life, his ideas, and his courage matter now more than ever.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Senator Ted Cruz, a timely, authoritative exploration of Clarence Thomas’s life, ideas, and lasting impact on constitutional law

For over three decades, Clarence Thomas has stood at the center of American law, enduring withering criticism and personal attacks while writing some of the most brilliant, accessible, transformational opinions in the Supreme Court's history. His insistence that the Constitution, not merely judicial precedent, is the highest authority has reshaped American jurisprudence, and his lasting impact on the trajectory of constitutional law is undeniable.

In this powerful and timely book, Senator Ted Cruz draws on his own Supreme Court clerkship, on his many years as a Supreme Court advocate, and on his now decades-long friendship with Justice Thomas to paint a portrait of one of the most consequential—and misunderstood—Americans in our nation's history. Drawing on nine hours of exclusive, wide-ranging, and deeply personal one-on-one interviews with the Justice, Cruz reveals how Thomas's most formative early experiences—like growing up in crushing poverty in segregated Georgia, his early encounters with extreme racism, and his brief stint in radical left-wing politics—forged a lifelong commitment to independence, self-reliance, and truth.

From Thomas's early years studying to be a priest to his role today as the intellectual force behind some of the Court's most significant decisions, Going Further traces the formation of one of our Constitution's staunchest defenders and makes a rousing argument about why his life, his ideas, and his courage matter now more than ever.

  • Publisher: Sentinel

    Title: Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas

    Author: Ted Cruz

    On Sale Date: August 25, 2026

    ISBN 13: 979-8-217-18119-3

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $35.00

    Page Count: 336

    Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.0 x 1.3 in

    Weight: 1.2 lb

  • Ted Cruz has spent his career inside the institution this book is about. A Princeton and Harvard Law graduate who clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, he went on to serve as Solicitor General of Texas, arguing nine cases before the U.S. Supreme Court—and along the way built a personal friendship with Justice Clarence Thomas that now spans decades. Cruz is currently the junior U.S. Senator from Texas and the author of four New York Times bestselling books, and he hosts the podcast Verdict with Ted Cruz. Going Further draws on that unusual vantage point—advocate, clerk, friend—along with nine hours of original interviews with Thomas himself, to make his case for why the Justice's life and ideas matter now more than ever. Cruz lives in Houston with his wife, Heidi, and their two daughters.

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This book is for you if

  • You want Clarence Thomas's story told by someone who has clerked at the Court, argued before it nine times, and calls the Justice a friend of decades.

  • You're drawn to the nine hours of exclusive, one-on-one interviews with Thomas himself—material no other biography of him can offer.

  • You want to understand how growing up in segregated, poverty-stricken Georgia shaped a judicial philosophy built on independence and original constitutional meaning.

  • You're interested in the untold chapters—Thomas's early flirtation with radical left-wing politics, his years discerning the priesthood—before he became the Court's most consequential conservative voice.

  • You want the case for why Thomas's ideas and courage matter now more than when he first took the bench.

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