Court Journalist Anthony Lewis

The great journalist Anthony Lewis made a specialty of covering the Supreme Court and constitutional issues. In addition to his classic book, Gideon's Trumpet (1964) and countless articles for the New York Times, he's written:

• The Supreme Court: Process and Change (1963)
• Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution (1964) (civil rights)
• The Supreme Court and How It Works: The Story of the Gideon Case (1966)(a children's book)*
• Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991)
• Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (2007).
• Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from the New York Times (2001)(edited by Lewis) (the articles included include a wide range of topics, from major world events to local stories you might never have heard of; it would be handy for someone who only has a few minutes at a time for non-required reading).

UW Law graduate Adam Eisenberg recently interview Anthony Lewis. You can read part one of the interview, with Lewis's thoughts on the Supreme Court, on HNN, the History News Network (April 2, 2012). Part two will be posted next week.

* I didn't realize it when I wrote this post an hour and a half ago, but today is International Children's Book Day. Isn't it cool that Lewis adapted Gideon's Trumpet so kids could learn about the Supreme Court and the right to counsel?