Liberal lion won National Book Award and edited leftwing Nation, with writers including Hitchens and Cockburn, from 1978 to 2005
Victor Navasky, photographed for the Guardian in 2005.Last modified on Wed 25 Jan 2023 12.50 GMT
“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.it “mourns the loss of Victor Navasky – a stalwart defender of the freedom to write – who led the Nation for many years, wrote Naming Names, a breakthrough chronicle of the Hollywood blacklisting era, and was a longtime Pen America board member”.Navasky “plucked me out of the intern program and was my boss for many years.
A decade earlier, Navasky wrote Kennedy Justice, some of the first sustained liberal analysis of Robert Kennedy’s brief time as attorney general and his battle to control the FBI director, J Edgar Hoover. Some scholars thought Navasky romanticized Kennedy, although the author did chastise him for appointing segregationist judges.
. “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.’ Someone else said, ‘From the sweat of the workers in the mines!’ And he said ‘Right!’” Columnists included Alexander Cockburn and Christopher Hitchens. Navasky was often criticized, whether for being too being cheap with his employees or for being too nice.
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