Speaking Truth to Power
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ISBN: 0385476256 / Publisher: Doubleday, September 1997
Six years after her testimony during Senate hearings to confirm Clarence Thomas' appointment to the Supreme Court, the author reveals how her charges of sexual harassment against her former employer changed her life
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After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to groundbreaking court decisions and major shifts in corporate policies that have had a profound effect on our lives - and on Anita Hill's life. Now, with remarkable insight and total candor, Anita Hill reflects on events before, during, and after the hearings, offering for the first time a complete account that sheds startling new light on this watershed event.Here is a vitally important work that allows us to understand why Anita Hill did what she did, and thereby brings resolution to one of the most controversial episodes in our nation's history.
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