Anthony Lewis

Anthony Lewis
Anthony Lewis by David Levine

Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times, has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. His book Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment was published this year. (May 2008)

From the Review

May 1, 2008: The Terror President*

December 20, 2007: The Court: How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much'

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

June 8, 2006: Demagogue Without a Cause*

Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy by Tom Wicker

April 6, 2006: Woman in the Middle*

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice by Joan Biskupic

July 14, 2005: Privilege & the Press*

Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment by Floyd Abrams

April 7, 2005: More Than Fit to Print

Inside the Pentagon Papers edited by John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter

November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future

July 15, 2004: Making Torture Legal*

May 27, 2004: Bush and the Lesser Evil*

The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror by Michael Ignatieff

The Year of Living Dangerously: A Liberal Supporter of the War Looks Back an article by Michael Ignatieff

October 23, 2003: Un-American Activities*

Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism by David Cole

February 13, 2003: On the West Wing*

Bush at War by Bob Woodward

The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush by David Frum

December 5, 2002: A Phantom Triumph? (letter)

November 7, 2002: Bush and Iraq

April 25, 2002: Is There a Solution?

October 19, 2000: 'A Vast Conspiracy' (letter)

April 13, 2000: Nearly a Coup*

A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President by Jeffrey Toobin

The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton by Joe Conason, by Gene Lyons

August 13, 1998: The Case of Lani Guinier*

Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice by Lani Guinier

May 13, 1993: Murder in Turkey (letter)

January 19, 1989: The Intimidated Press*

September 29, 1983: You Can't Go Home Again*

October 9, 1980: The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann*

Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

June 12, 1980: The Evidence of 'The Brethren': An Exchange

February 7, 1980: Supreme Court Confidential*

The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward, by Scott Armstrong

October 27, 1977: A Matter of Character*

Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy by Roger Morris

March 7, 1974: Torture in Hanoi*

They Wouldn't Let Us Die: The Prisoners of War Tell Their Story by Stephen A. Rowan

The Passing of the Night: My Seven Years as a Prisoner of the North Vietnamese by Colonel Robinson Risner

February 8, 1973: Walt's Faults*

The Diffusion of Power: An Essay in Recent History by W.W. Rostow

From New York Review Books

Glory and Terror
Steven Weinberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, writes that America today "has an unprecedented opportunity to begin to escape from the risk of nuclear annihilation." But, he warns, President Bush is not only letting this opportunity slip away, he is, in some respects, moving in the wrong direction.

Books by Anthony Lewis

Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991)
Gideon's Trumpet (1989)
Clarence Earl Gideon and the Supreme Court (1972)