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The Journalist as Historian: Anthony Lewis, Civil Liberties, and the Supreme Court
Author(s) -
Strum Philippa
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of supreme court history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1540-5818
pISSN - 1059-4329
DOI - 10.1111/j.1059-4329.2004.00081.x
Subject(s) - consolation , supreme court , law , column (typography) , face (sociological concept) , political science , law and economics , philosophy , art , sociology , theology , engineering , structural engineering , linguistics , connection (principal bundle)
The genesis of the column that Anthony Lewis wrote for The New York Times between 1969 and 2001 was a red face—not Lewis's, but that of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. The Times ' publisher offered Lewis the column as a consolation prize after outgoing executive editor James Reston mistakenly informed Lewis that the job of deputy to A. M. Rosenthal, the new executive editor, was open and that Lewis was a logical candidate. 1