Lewis J. Paper

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Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1946, Lewis J. Paper grew up in Livingston, New Jersey. He graduated with a BA from the University of Michigan in 1968, and with a JD from Harvard Law School in 1971 where he was a Felix Frankfurter Scholar and Note Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation as well as a Teaching Fellow in Government at Harvard College. He subsequently served as a Fellow of the Institute of Public Interest Representation at Georgetown Law School, where he earned a Master’s Degree in Law.

After leaving Georgetown, Paper practiced law in Washington, DC with the Citizens Communications Center, a public interest law firm focused on broadcasting. He then served as Legislative Counsel to US Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin) and as Associate General Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School. He was later a partner at several law firms in Washington, DC, where he participated in numerous presidential campaigns.

Besides Empire: William S. Paley and the Making of CBS, Paper is the author of six other books: John F. Kennedy: The Promise and the Performance, Brandeis: An Intimate Biography, Perfect: Don Larsen’s Miraculous World Series Game and the Men Who Made It Happen, In the Cauldron: Terror, Tension, and the American Ambassador’s Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor, and the novels Deadly Risks and Legacy of Lies: An Historical Thriller. His articles and book reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and other periodicals.


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