Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis ( born March 27, 1927 in New York City; † March 25, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was a liberal spectrum be assigned, a journalist who wrote, among other things editorials for the New York Times and articles for the New York Review of Books. Previously, he worked at the Times as editor (1948-1952), in whose editorial in Washington, DC (1955-1964), in the London branch as chief editor (1965-1972) and from 1969 to 2001 as a columnist. From time to time (1952-1955) he worked for the Democratic Party in the U.S. and wrote articles for the Washington Daily News.

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

Noam Chomsky underestimated Lewis as a relatively far to the left for U.S. media relations. His position will help in recognizing the tacit agreements under which the U.S. media expired compliant mainstream discussions.

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Pulitzer Prizes

Lewis won two Pulitzer Prizes - the first in 1955 for his documentary about a program of the U.S. government and especially about the dismissal of a Navy employee who did not knew about the reasons for his dismissal ( he was reinstated thanks to Lewis' work); he was awarded the second prize in 1963 for his coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States. He also frequently wrote about the Court and constitutional affairs.

Teaching

He taught since the mid-1970s at the School of Postgraduate Studies of journalism at Columbia University and was the James Madison Chair held there since 1982 in matters of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. He held from 1974 to 1989 lectures at Harvard and went for a long time as a guest lecturer in various colleges and universities (for example, in Arizona, Illinois, California and Oregon).

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 bang ( Original title: Gideon 's Trumpet ) ( Random House, 1964) ( ISBN 0-679-72312-9 edition ). was filmed with the same name

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 on 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
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