Harry S. Ashmore

Biography

Harry S. Ashmore (1916-1998) was the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette during the 1957 desegregation crisis at Little Rock’s Central High School and won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on the topic.

See Work

CRITICISM / Summer 1991

The Liberal’s “Commanding Cause”

By Harry S. Ashmore

Since liberalism is shot through with compromise at the level of political action, it is constantly in need of moral grounding. Reclaiming Liberalism’s examination of the principles set forth in the classic texts, as illuminated by the...

ESSAYS / Spring 1975

The Great Re-Awakening

By Harry S. Ashmore

Although the dimensions and consequences are still in dispute, there is general agreement that the quality of American life has undergone a profound change. There are those who profess to hear in the discordant sound of the seventies the...

ESSAYS / Summer 1983

Below the Bottom Line

By Harry S. Ashmore

The first full-dress, generally sympathetic biography of the 40th president of the United States is prefaced by the author’s declaration: “. . . I like and respect Ronald Reagan while remaining skeptical that his actions will achieve the...

ESSAYS / Winter 1986

Doubling the Standard

By Harry S. Ashmore

In First Monday in October, the movie that anticipated appointment of the first woman to the United States Supreme Court, Walter Matthau plays a role that amiably caricatures the late William O. Douglas. The plot is built around a...