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The Man Who Flunked His Way to the Top of American Law
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The Man Who Flunked His Way to the Top of American Law

Most people who fail the bar exam twice quietly find another career. Thurgood Marshall used those failures as fuel. The story of how America's most consequential civil rights attorney built his legend not in spite of his stumbles, but because of them.