Written Into History by Anthony Lewis

Written Into History by Anthony Lewis

With each news day, history unfolds as steadfast journalists uncover facts and public opinion. Drawn from the New York Times's archive of an unparalleled eighty-one Pulitzer Prizes, Written into History offers a fascinating record of the twentieth century.

The Times's award-winning reports range from Antarctic dispatches on the Byrd expedition to the eyewitness account of the atomic bomb, from the First Amendment battle to publish the Pentagon Papers to the personal narrative of an interracial friendship. Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis culled the newspaper's most acclaimed writing to chronicle life and history as it was happening, with such highlights as David Halberstam on Vietnam, J. Anthony Lukas on hippies, Anna Quindlen on AIDS, and John F. Burns on the Taliban.

Lewis tells the stories behind the stories, describing journalism's changing role in the world. For armchair historians and aspiring reporters, this is a rich and memorable portrait of a century by the men and women who most artfully observed it.

Anthony Lewis was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who revolutionized legal reporting in the United States. He is the author of the Gideon v. Saul case. Wainwright was a landmark case from 1963 that guaranteed legal representation to indigent individuals charged with serious crimes. New York Times v. Sullivan: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment is the subject of his book Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. The Supreme Court decision Sullivan, which transformed American libel law in 1964.

Lewis worked as a Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times from 1957 to 1964, and for thirty years he authored an Op-Ed piece called At Home Abroad or Abroad at Home, depending on where he was writing from. From 1974 through 1989, he was a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He has also served as Columbia University's James Madison Visiting Professor. Anthony Lewis, who was 85 years old at the time of his death, died in 2013.