Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007

The Conservative Betrayed

By Russell Baker
The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years of Reporting in Washington
by Robert D. Novak

Crown Forum, 662 pp., $29.95

As a syndicated columnist, Robert Novak has specialized for the past forty-five years in the inside-Washington branch of political news reporting. To the casual newspaper reader it may seem a delightful job: expense-account lunches with movers and shakers, getting to know famous rascals, gleaning the secrets of mysterious 'sources' whose identities must not be revealed.



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