The man who saved the nation.(A Matter of Opinion)(Book Review)

The Progressive | August 1, 2005| | Copyright

A Matter of Opinion By Victor S. Navasky Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 458 pages. $27.00.

There are editors. And there are editors. And then there s Victor Navasky, who's been at the helm of The Nation, our flagship for the past three decades. (And cut it out already, Dissent, you are not, as you claim to be, with your puny readership and low profile, "The Leading Magazine of the American Left." That distinction belongs to The Nation.) Navasky has taken The Nation from 23,000 subscribers to about 184,000. He's lifted the profile of the magazine by grabbing some of the ...

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