Race, Gender, and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearing, edited by Anita F. Hill and Emma Coleman Jordan (Oxford, 302 pp., $25)
THE contributors to this book do not argue that Clarence Thomas was guilty as charged and should have been rejected for the Supreme Court. They simply assume these premises—indeed, the idea that an accusation of sexual harassment could ever be false has evidently never occurred to them—and try to explain the cultural pathologies that in 1991 kept most Americans from grasping the obvious. This approach has its advantages: none of the authors need mention, let alone try to refute, David Brock’s The Real Anita Hill. Miss Hill complains
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