Novak Without Tears

The Nation by Eric Alterman | Aug. 26, 2009 (Special Report)

Journalist and television personality Robert Novak died August 18. I think it's time to do him the honor of taking his life's work seriously.
I got to know Novak a bit in the late 1980s while writing a magazine profile of him, and another of his then-colleague John McLaughlin while researching a book on the history of punditry. I found myself immune to Novak's charms--as he was to mine--but I don't begrudge the fact that many people in Washington did ... Full Story »

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