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Navasky, Victor Saul was born on July 5, 1932 in New York City. Son of Macy and Esther Blanche (Goldberg) Navasky.
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Nowhere was the clash between idealism and expediency that characterized the Kennedy brothers more apparent during their years in power than at the crossroads of the American legal system, the Department of Justice. This story of how the moral measure of their leadership was most severely tested - how boldly were imperiled liberties championed; how effectively were overlords of corruption prosecuted; how wisely were judges picked; how well, in short, was justice served - has never been told before. Until this book. Victor Navasky's intensive investigative research over a period of five years details and sheds light on many heavily shrouded subjects from the Kennedy era. The result is a remarkable case study in the dynamics of the American political system.
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Author's Note: "Kennedy Justice is neither a personal portrait nor an attempt at chronological reconstruction of the historical high and low points of the Justice Department under Robert F. Kennedy. Rather, it is a series of forays into what is forbiddingly known as the Decision-making Process, a look at how an institution makes up its mind, a tracing of one man's attempt to translate policy values into results, an inquiry into how justice is or isn't done. It is the premise of this book that as the President's brother, Robert Kennedy had a chance to be the maximum Attorney General, to explore the outermost reaches of that office, and that therefore Robert Kennedy's Attorney Generalship provides a unique opportunity to focus on the points at which the pursuit and exercise of power meet bureaucratic resistance--and to ask what are the consequences of that conflict...."
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With a New Afterword by the Author “An astonishing work concerning personal honor and dishonor, shame and shamelessness. A book of stunning insights and suspense.” —Studs Terkel Half a century later, the investigation of Hollywood radicals by the House Committee on Un-American Activities still haunts the public conscience. Naming Names, reissued here with a new afterword by the author, is the definitive account of the hearings, a National Book Award winner widely hailed as a classic. Victor S. Navasky adroitly dissects the motivations for the investigation and offers a poignant analysis of its consequences. Focusing on the movie-studio workers who avoided blacklists only by naming names at the hearings, he explores the terrifying dilemmas of those who informed and the tragedies of those who were informed on. Drawing on interviews with more than 150 people called to testify—among them Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller—Naming Names presents a compelling portrait of how the blacklists operated with such chilling efficiency.
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( Winner of the 2005 George Polk Book Award Victor S. Na...)
Winner of the 2005 George Polk Book Award Victor S. Navasky is the renowned editor, writer, and educator who was at the helm of The Nation for almost thirty years. A Matter of Opinion, a scintillating reflection on his experiences, is an extraordinary political document--and a passionately written, irresistibly charming account of a great journalistic tradition.
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Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky. The Viking Press, New York, 1980. The moral issues that continue to haunt the Hollywood blacklist generation have never been fully explored. This book is the first serious attempt to capture the painful history of not only the blacklist's victims, but also the men and women who "named names," who cooperated with the "degradation ceremonies" of congressional committees investigating Hollywood during the 1950s. Some of these people were influential and well known -- Sterling Hayden, Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Budd Schulberg, Larry Parks; others, less famous, were caught equally in the vise of the times. Victor S. Navasky has unabashedly asked them -- and their children, lawyers, therapists, and agents -- why did they do what they did? His brilliant book about their answers is an extraordinary moral detective story.
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Navasky, Victor Saul was born on July 5, 1932 in New York City. Son of Macy and Esther Blanche (Goldberg) Navasky.
AB with high honors, Swarthmore College, 1954. Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1959.
Special assistant to Governor G. Mennen Williams, Michigan, 1959-1960. Editor, public Monocle Magazine, 1961-1965. Editor New York Times magazine, 1970-1972, The Nation Magazine, New York City, 1978-1994, public, general partner, 1995—2005, public emeritus, since 2005.
Delacorte professor magazine journalism Columbia University, since 1999, director, George T. Delacorte Center Magazine Journalism. Visiting scholar Russell Sage Foundation, 1975—1976. Ferris professor journalism Princeton University, 1976—1977.
Chairman Columbia Journalism Review.
(Nowhere was the clash between idealism and expediency tha...)
(Author's Note: "Kennedy Justice is neither a personal por...)
( With a New Afterword by the Author “An astonishing wor...)
( Winner of the 2005 George Polk Book Award Victor S. Na...)
(Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky. The Viking Press, New ...)
Author: Kennedy Justice, 1971 (National Book award nominee), Naming Names, 1980 (National Book award 1981), review edition, 2003, A Matter of Opinion, 2005 (George S. Polk Book award, 2006). Co-author (with Christopher Cerf): Mission Accomplished!, 2008. Co-playwright (with Richard R. Lingeman): Starr's Last Tape, 1999.Co-editor (with C. Cerf): The Experts Speak, 1984, review edition, 1998. Commentator (public radio program) Marketplace. Contributor numerous article and reviews to professional publications.
Member board managers Swarthmore College, 1991-1994. Board trustees The New School Served with United States Army, 1954-1956. Fellow American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (board member), Author's Guild (board member), Committee To Protect Journalists (executive committee), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Anne Landey Strongin, March 27, 1966. Children: Bruno, Miri, Jenny.