Background
Lewis, Anthony was born on March 27, 1927 in New York City. Son of Kassel and Sylvia (Surut) Lewis.
(The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall mak...)
The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Yet, in 1960, a city official in Montgomery, Alabama, sued The New York Times for libel -- and was awarded $500,000 by a local jury -- because the paper had published an ad critical of Montgomery's brutal response to civil rights protests. The centuries of legal precedent behind the Sullivan case and the U.S. Supreme Court's historic reversal of the original verdict are expertly chronicled in this gripping and wonderfully readable book by the Pulitzer Prize -- winning legal journalist Anthony Lewis. It is our best account yet of a case that redefined what newspapers -- and ordinary citizens -- can print or say.
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Lewis, Anthony was born on March 27, 1927 in New York City. Son of Kassel and Sylvia (Surut) Lewis.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1948.
Deskman, Sunday department New York Times, 1948-1952; staff, Democratic National Committee, 1952; reporter, Washington Daily News, 1952-1955; reporter, Washington bureau New York Times, 1955-1964; chief London bureau, New York Times, 1965-1972; editorial columnist, since 1969. Lecturer on law Harvard University, 1974-1989. James Madison visiting professor Columbia University, since 1983.
(A first hand account of the struggle for Civil rights fro...)
(The First Amendment puts it this way: "Congress shall mak...)
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Member of American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society.
Married Linda Rannells, July 8, 1951 (divorced). Children: Eliza, David, Mia. Married Margaret H. Marshall, September 23, 1984.