Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis (* 27. March 1927 in New York City ; † 25. March 2013 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was a the liberal figures relate spectrum journalist , among other things, editorials for the New York Times wrote and article for the New York Review of Books . Previously, he worked for the Times as editor (1948–1952), in their editorial office in Washington, DC (1955–1964), in the London branch as editor-in-chief (1965–1972) and from 1969 to 2001 as a columnist . At times (1952–1955) he worked for the Democratic Party in the USA and wrote articles for the Washington Daily News .

Life

Lewis grew up in New York, where he attended Horace Mann School and later Harvard University , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . During his time at Harvard he wrote for The Harvard Crimson, a daily newspaper operated only by Harvard students. He was married to Margaret H. Marshall and had three children in his first marriage.

Noam Chomsky rates Lewis as relatively far left for US media relations. His position helps to recognize the tacit agreements under which mainstream- compliant discussions took place in the US media .

Lewis won two Pulitzer Awards - the first in 1955 for his coverage of a US government program and specifically the firing of a Navy employee who did not know why he was fired (he was reinstated thanks to Lewis' work); he received second prize in 1963 for his reporting on the United States Supreme Court . He also wrote frequently on the Court of Justice and on constitutional matters.

Lewis taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism from the mid-1970s , where he had held the James Madison Chair in Matters of the 1st Amendment to the United States Constitution since 1982 . He lectured at Harvard from 1974 to 1989 and has long been a visiting professor at various colleges and universities (e.g. in Arizona , Illinois , California and Oregon ). In 1991 Lewis was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2005 to the American Philosophical Society .

author

Own works

• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Basic Books, 2007), ISBN 978-0-465-03917-3
• Gideon's bang (original title: Gideon's Trumpet) (Random House, 1964) (new edition ISBN 0-679-72312-9 ).
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• Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution (Random House, 1964), ISBN 0-394-44412-4 .
• Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (Random House, 1991), ISBN 0-394-58774-X . (PB ed by Vintage)
• The Supreme Court and How It Works: The Story of the Gideon Case (Random House Children's Books, 1966), ISBN 0-394-91861-4 .

Works in which he participated

• In Time of War: Hitler's Terrorist Attack on America by Pierce O'Donnell and Anthony Lewis. (New Press, 2005), ISBN 1-56584-958-2 .
• Glory and Terror: The Growing Nuclear Danger by Steven Weinberg ; Foreword by Anthony Lewis (New York Review Books, 2004), ISBN 1-59017-130-6 .
• The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent by Tom Segev (Editor), Roane Carey (Editor), Jonathan Shainin and Anthony Lewis, who wrote the introduction (New Press, 2004), ISBN 1-56584-914-0 .
• 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 0-521-85324-9 .
• 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 0-8147-4775-2 .
• 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 0-7006-1091-X . The story of CIA v. Snepp

literature

• Patrick Bahners: A publicist who understood more about the law: When in doubt against American state secrecy: On the death of Anthony Lewis , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 27, 2011

Online articles

• One Liberty at a Time ( Mother Jones , May / June 2004)
• The Framers, the 1st Amendment and watchdog reporting
• "Heroic" news media?
• The Justices Take on the President

Web links

• Anthony Lewis in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anthony Lewis, Who Transformed Coverage of the Supreme Court, Dies at 85
2. ^ Cambridge Forum Speakers , accessed March 26, 2013.
3. ^ Member History: Anthony Lewis. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 2, 2019 (with biographical notes).