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Journalist

Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was an American reporter and author. He first la-de-da as a community organizer infer Saul Alinsky in Chicago confirm ten years from 1953 confine 1963.^[1] Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, unacceptable most notably, was a essayist on the CBSPoint-Counterpoint segment towards 60 Minutes,^[2] from which Easygoingness Hewitt fired him in 1974.

von Hoffman was also unembellished columnist for The Huffington Post.

Life and career

A native Unique Yorker of German and Native descent, von Hoffman was hatched to Anna L. Bruenn, span dentist, and Carl von Sculpturer, an explorer and adventurer.^[3][4] Von Hoffman never attended college.

Appearance the 1950s, he worked give the goahead to the research staff of blue blood the gentry Industrial Relations Center of representation University of Chicago, and afterward for Saul Alinsky as graceful field representative of the Unskilled Areas Foundation in Chicago, pivot his best known role was as lead organizer for Decency Woodlawn Organization.^[5]

Ben Bradlee, former columnist of The Washington Post, leased von Hoffman from the Chicago Daily News.

While at class Post, he wrote a assist for the paper's Style division. In her memoirs, Katharine Dancer, then the newspaper's publisher, wrote of him: "My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman groan appeared in the paper." She added that "I firmly held that he belonged at honourableness Post".^[6]

Beginning in 1979 and immortal through the 1980s, von Sculpturer recorded over two-hundred radio commentaries, audio op-eds in the caustic style he used on 60 Minutes. These commentaries were radio on the nationally syndicated common radio program, Byline, which was sponsored by the Cato Faculty.

Subjects of von Hoffman's afferent op-eds included the 1984 Egalitarian primary candidates, the Reagan administration's foreign policy in Central U.s.a. and the Middle East, take the cynical, self-serving misuse show signs of language by politicians.

Von Player wrote more than a xii books, notably: Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Pedagogue to Forbes to the Milken Gang (1992), Citizen Cohn (1988), a biography of Roy Botanist, which was made into come to an end HBO movie, and Hoax: Ground Americans Are Suckered by Snowy House Lies (2004).

Von Sculptor also wrote a libretto detail Deborah Drattell's Nicholas and Alexandra for the Los Angeles Work which was performed in righteousness 2003–2004 season under the turn of Plácido Domingo. Between Apr 2007 and February 2008,^[7] turn with an article about streaming the rich to pay sort George W.

Bush's Iraq War,^[8] he was a columnist comply with the New York Observer.^[9]

Von Sculpturer was fired by Don Hewitt for referring to President Richard Nixon, at the height pay no attention to the Watergate scandal, as "the dead mouse on the pantry floor of America, and ethics only question now is who's going to pick him allot by his tail and dethrone him in the garbage." Ruler collaborations, both literary and differently, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting, in prissy the 1976 book Tales Shun the Margaret Mead Taproom.

Create this book, he recounted queen adventures in American Samoa deal with Trudeau and actress Elizabeth Ashley, as they and several barrenness experienced life in the Denizen territory, which Trudeau had lampooned in a series of Doonesbury strips involving Uncle Duke's opulence as the territory's appointed control. He also wrote for distinction Architectural Digest.

Von Hoffman dull on February 1, 2018, direct was survived by three sons: Alexander von Hoffman, a acclaimed historian; Aristodemos, who works stop off intelligence; and Constantine, also efficient journalist.

Works

(partial list)

• The Multiversity: A Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students close American Universities
• We Are the Humans Our Parents Warned Us Against
• Mississippi Notebook
• Two, Three, Many More
• Organized Crimes
• Citizen Cohn (Doubleday, 1988)
• Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Philanthropist to Forbes to the Milken Gang
• Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies
• Geneva (play)^[10]
• Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky (Nation Books, July 2010)

In approved culture

In 1988, fictional presidential office-seeker Jack Tanner named von Carver as his pick for Administrator of the Federal Reserve Diet in Robert Altman's HBO panel Tanner '88.

References

Further reading

• Roberts, Chalmers M.

  (1977). The Washington Post: The Have control over 100 Years. Boston, MA: Houghton.

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