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Tom Lewis (1) (1942–)

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Tom Lewis is Professor, of English at Skidmore College. He is the author of Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio and The Hudson: A History, as well as researcher, writer, or producer for documentary films including Brooklyn Bridge, The Shakers, and Empire of the Air (all directed; by Ken toon meer Burns) and Divided Highways (directed by Larry Hott and Diane Garey). toon minder

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Geboortedatum
1942
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
USA
Woonplaatsen
Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Opleiding
University of New Brunswick (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Beroepen
professor (English)
Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility and professor of English, Skidmore College
Organisaties
Skidmore College
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Emmy
Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting
Korte biografie
Tom Lewis is Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility and a professor of English at Skidmore College. He has edited The Letters of Hart Crane and his Family and a collection of essays on Virginia Woolf, and has written a number of essays on modern writers and culture. His books on modern culture include Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; and Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life. He earned his BA from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and his MA and Ph.D. from Columbia where he was both a Faculty and Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Lewis has also written and co-produced documentary films with Ken Burns and Lawrence Hott. His documentary work has won an Emmy and a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

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very readable popular history and criticism of the Interstate Highway System; initially very laudatory of the engineers who planned and designed, but critical of their uncaring attitude toward the social impact
 
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7
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520
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#47,760
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½ 3.7
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2
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