PrinceOfDarkness

Bob Novak: An Appreciation

The Prince of Darkness is gone, and Washington won't be the same without him. Robert D. Novak was the ultimate insider newspaper columnist, at once celebrated and reviled by the movers and shakers among the politicians and journalists of the nation's capital. He was also the ultimate shoe-leather reporter, who in his heyday worked nearly round the clock with time left over to drink and gamble and exchange insults with his colleagues. He never lacked for sources or opinions, but the secret of his success was that he interviewed more people than his competitors did. Richard Harwood, my late, ...

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