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, D.C. bureau (1955-64), and deskman (1948-1952) all for the Times. From 1952-55 he worked for the Democratic National Committee and the Washington Daily News. March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in leap years). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Manhattan Queens Brooklyn Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... The New York Review of Books (or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of the United Kingdom and the largest city of England (strangely, England has no constitutional existence within the United Kingdom, and therefore cannot be said to have a capital). ... Nickname: DC, The District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location of Washington, D.C., in relation to the states Maryland and Virginia. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States; the other being the Republican Party. ...

His first Pulitzer Prize was in 1955 for reporting on the U.S. Government's loyalty program, and specifically on the dismissal of a Navy 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. The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and is the only part of the judicial branch of the United States federal government explicitly specified in the United States Constitution. ... Constitutional law is the study of foundational laws that govern the scope of powers and authority of various bodies in relation to the creation and execution of other laws by a government. ...

Lewis has taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism since the mid-'70s, and has held the school's James Madison chair in First Amendment Issues since 1982. He lectured at Harvard from 1974 to 1989 and has been a visiting lecturer at several other colleges and universities, including the Universities of Arizona, California, Illinois, and Oregon. Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting news regarding current events, trends, issues and people. ... James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American politician and fourth President of the United States (1809–1817). ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ...

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. The Horace Mann School is an independent college preparatory school in New York City. ... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, having been founded in 1636. ... The Harvard Crimson, the breakfast daily of Harvard University, was founded in 1873. ...

Noam Chomsky has said 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 underlie all mainstream discussion. Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph. ...

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 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, which legalized gay marriage in Massachusetts. He has three children from his first marriage, Eliza, David, and Mia, and seven grandchildren, Lily, Evie, Miranda, Thea, Jack, Zoe and Beatrice. Margaret H. Marshall is Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. ... The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is the highest court in the United States commonwealth of Massachusetts. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Holding The denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples violated provisions of the state constitution guaranteeing individual liberty and equality, and was not rationally related to a legitimate state interest. ... Same-sex marriage is marriage between individuals who are of the same legal or biological sex. ... The Massachusett were tribal communities of Native Americans who lived in areas surrounding Massachusetts Bay in what is now the state of Massachusetts. ...

Lewis and his wife currently reside in Cambridge, MA, and are longtime residents there. Anthony Lewis is also, though readers of his former column in the Times on Israeli-Palestinian issues might find this hard to believe, a prominent Jewish-American.

Books

Sole or Primary Author

• Gideon's Trumpet (Random House, 1964) - the story behind Gideon v. Wainwright (Reprint ISBN 0-679-72312-9)
  • 1965 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book
  • made into a film of the same name
• 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) The story behind New York Times v. Sullivan (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)

Visit: ADILSOFT Gideons Trumpet is a book by Anthony Lewis describing the story behind Gideon v. ... Holding The Sixth Amendment right to counsel is a fundamental right applied to the states through the Fourteenth, and requires that indigent criminal defendants be provided counsel at trial. ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... Holding The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, protected a newspaper from being sued for libel in state court for making false defamatory statements about the official conduct of a public official, because the statements were not made with knowing or reckless disregard for the truth. ...

Editor

• Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times (Holt, 2001) (ISBN 0-8050-6849-X)

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 1-56584-958-2)
• Glory and Terror: The Growing Nuclear Danger by Steven Weinberg; preface 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 (Introduction), and Anthony Lewis (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

Steven Weinberg at Harvard University Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. ... Tom Segev is a public intellectual, journalist, and Israeli historian. ... Frank Warren Snepp (born 3 May 1943, Kinston, North Carolina) is a journalist and former chief analyst of North Vietnamese strategy for the CIA in Saigon during the Vietnam War. ...

Online articles by Lewis

• 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

External links

• New York Review of Books
• Reporting Civil Rights
• Fairness.com profile
• Columbia faculty profile
• Nieman Watchdog profile
• John S Knight fellowship at Stanford
• Lewis discusses why the Supreme Court’s overturning of the decision in The New York Times v. Sullivan case—the focus of his 1992 Make No Law—was a blow to those in the south who wished to overlook the first amendment and silence the national press’ coverage of the Civil Rights Movement
• NYT bio
• Middle East Warp: The Pathology of Anthony Lewis 1992 article by Andrea Levin highly critical of Lewis
• links to various online articles mentioning Lewis
• Front list--books by Lewis
• Anthony Lewis discusses press issues with Ron Collins at Harvard University A transcript of that interview can be found here.
• Anthony Lewis: bibliography of articles, columns, scholarly works and books on the First Amendment