Victor Navasky, an award-winning author and journalist who for years presided over the liberal weekly The Nation and wrote influential books on anti-Communist blacklisting and Robert F. Kennedy's justice department, has died at age 90.
Victor Navasky, an award-winning author and journalist who for years presided over the liberal weekly The Nation and wrote influential books on anti-Communist blacklisting and Robert F. Kennedy's justice department, has died at age 90.
"Victor was a true believer in the power of independent media — quietly fierce in his convictions, kind and generous to so very many," vanden Heuvel wrote. Earlier, in his career Navasky wrote"Kennedy Justice," which offered some of the first sustained liberal analysis of Kennedy's brief time as attorney general, his recruitment of such gifted underlings as future Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and his tiring battle to control FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Some scholars thought Navasky romanticized Kennedy, although the author did chastise Kennedy for his record of appointing segregationist judges to the federal courts.
"We had one Marxist history teacher who taught a straight Marxist view of history," Navasky told The Guardian in 2005."I remember he once asked where diamonds got their value. Someone said, 'because they're beautiful.' He said, 'no, no.' Someone else said, 'supply and demand.' He said, 'no.
Columnists such as Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens were as likely to attack each other as to take on conservatives. The genial Navasky himself was often criticized, whether for being too cheap with his employees or for being too nice.
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