Robert Novak, Rest in Peace

Charles G. Mills

8/26/2009

Robert Novak was to journalism what Ty Cobb was to baseball. Just as Ty Cobb mastered the skills of hitting and base-running like no one else ever did, Robert Novak mastered the skills of investigative journalism. Novak correctly saw his job as finding the story and finding out the true facts of the story. He was never afraid of the truth. Like Ty Cobb, he kept his many kindnesses private and had a public reputation for nastiness. He enjoyed his nickname as the “Prince of Darkness.”

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