Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis (born March 27, 1927, New York City) is a prominent liberal intellectual, writing for the New York Times op-ed page and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He was previously a columnist for the Times (1969-2001). Before that he was London bureau chief (1965-1972), Washington DC bureau (1955-64), and deskman (1948-1952) all for the Times. From 1952-55 he worked for the Democratic National Committtee and the Washington Daily News.

His first Pulitzer Prize was in 1955 for reporting on the US Government's loyalty program, and specifically on the dismissal of a Navey employee who was not informed of the nature of the accusations against him, nor of his accusers. Lewis's articles led to the employee's reinstatement. He won a second Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for his coverage of the United States Supreme Court. He has frequently written on the Court and matters of Constitutional law.

He lectured at Harvard (1974-1989). He has been a visiting lectureer at several colleges and universities, including Columbia and the Universities of Arizona, California, Illinois, and Oregon.

Anthony Lewis was born in New York City; he attended the Horace Mann School in New York and Harvard College, where he earned a BA in 1948. While at Harvard, he was an editor of the Harvard Crimson.

Noam Chomsky notes that Anthony Lewis is at "the far left of the spectrum" that is available in the mainstream media, and thus is useful in discovering the tacit assumptions that underly all mainstream discussion.

He is married to Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, who was formerly the General Counsel and Vice-President at Harvard University. She wrote the majority opinion of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health which legalized gay marriage in the state of Massachusetts.

Contents

1 Books 1.1 Sole or Primary Author 1.2 Editor 1.3 Co-author or contributor 2 Online articles by Lewis 3 External links

Books

Sole or Primary Author

• Gideon's Trumpet (Random House, 1964) - the story behind Gideon v. Wainwright (Reprint ISBN 0679723129)
  • made into a film of the same name
• Portrait of a Decade:The Second American Revolution (Random House, 1964) (ISBN 0394444124)
• Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment ( Random House, 1991) The story behind New York Times v. Sullivan (ISBN 039458774X) (PB ed by Vintage)
• The Supreme Court and How It Works: The Story of the Gideon Case (Random House Childrens Books, 1966) (ISBN 0394918614)

Editor

• Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times (Holt, 2001) (ISBN 080506849X)

Co-author or contributor

• In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America by Pierce O'Donnell and Anthony Lewis. (New Press, 2005) (ISBN 1565849582)
• Glory and Terror: The Growing Nuclear Danger by Steven Weinberg; preface by Anthony Lewis (New York Review Books, 2004) (ISBN 1590171306)
• The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent by Tom Segev (Editor), Roane Carey (Editor), Jonathan Shainin (Introduction), and Anthony Lewis (Introduction) (New Press, 2004) (ISBN 1565849140)
• The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib by Karen J. Greenberg (Editor), Joshua L. Dratel (Editor), and Anthony Lewis (Introduction) (Cambridge University Press, 2005) (ISBN 0521853249)
• The Myth of the Imperial Judiciary: Why the Right Is Wrong About the Courts by Mark Kozlowski Foreword by Anthony Lewis. (New York University Press, 2003) (ISBN 0814747752)
• Irreparable Harm: A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech by Frank Snepp and Anthony Lewis (University Press of Kansas, 2001) (ISBN 070061091X) The story of CIA v. Snepp

Online articles by Lewis

• One Liberty at a Time (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/05/04_403.html) (Mother Jones, May/June 2004)
• the Framers, the 1st Amendment and watchdog reporting (http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Background.view&backgroundid=24)
• "Heroic" News media? (http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Background.view&backgroundid=41)
• The Justices Take on the President (http://www.susqu.edu/lawandsociety/LewisCommentary.htm)

External links

• New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/authors/149)
• Reporting Civil Rights (http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/authors/bio.jsp?authorId=43)
• Fairness.com profile (http://www.fairness.com/resources/by-relation?relation_id=7764)
• Columbia faculty profile (http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.asp)
• Nieman Watchdog profile (http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributors&bioid=21)
• John S Knight fellowship at Stanford (http://knight.stanford.edu/lectures/knight/1994/lewis_bio.html)
• Facing History profile: includes extensive Lewis quote (http://www.facinghistory.org/facing/fhao2.nsf/newsmakers/Anthony+Lewis+?opendocument)
• NYT bio (http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/lewis/bio_lewis.html)
• Middle East Warp: The Pathology of Anthony Lewis (http://world.std.com/~camera/docs/oncamera/ocalws92.html) 1992 article by Andrea Levin highly critical of Lewis
• links to various online articles mentioning Lewis (http://news.surfwax.com/authors/files/Anthony_Lewis_Book.html)
• Front list--books by Lewis (http://www.frontlist.com/booklist/28382)