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Lewis has always championed the underdog, whether it be Chasanow, Gideon or the Bosnians he often writes about today...
...says the 1953 hearings sparked his interest in internal security, and he soon began checking records of federal employees who had been dismissed as security risks. He discovered the case of Abraham Chasanow, a civilian employed in the Navy's Hydrographic Office who had been dismissed in July 1953 as a loyalty risk after more than 20 years of service. Lewis' articles cleared Chasanow's name and earned him the Pulitzer...
...News, Lewis did a series on a man named Abraham Chasanow, for which he later won a Pulitzer Prize. Chasanow had been an employee of the Navy Department, who, after working there for 20 years, was fired because of alleged Communist associations. Lewis claims now, as he did at the time, that Chasanow was "about as much of a communist as Ronald Reagan was." The seeds of Lewis' liberalism were already sewn...
Lewis continued to write Chasanow-like stories for the News and then for The New York Times, which hired him in 1955. Washington bureau chief James Reston had contacted Lewis and asked him to cover the Supreme Court for the Times. For seven years Lewis was the Times' man in the halls of American justice, and he collected another Pulitzer for his efforts...
Lewis decided to bring the case to the public's attention and with a series of nine news stories and three editorials. Lewis won dismissal of the case, the reinstatement of Chasanow, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In 1963 Lewis won another Pulitzer for his Supreme Court reporting for The New York Times...