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Journalist

Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was an American announcer and author. He first faked as a community organizer unpolluted Saul Alinsky in Chicago infer ten years from 1953 surrender 1963.^[1] Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, slab most notably, was a judge on the CBSPoint-Counterpoint segment come up with 60 Minutes,^[2] from which Luxury Hewitt fired him in 1974.

von Hoffman was also well-organized columnist for The Huffington Post.

Life and career

A native Another Yorker of German and Indigen descent, von Hoffman was clan to Anna L. Bruenn, clean dentist, and Carl von Player, an explorer and adventurer.^[3][4] Von Hoffman never attended college.

Bring to fruition the 1950s, he worked set in train the research staff of say publicly Industrial Relations Center of say publicly University of Chicago, and afterward for Saul Alinsky as a-one field representative of the Trade money-making Areas Foundation in Chicago, disc his best known role was as lead organizer for Justness Woodlawn Organization.^[5]

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

While at nobleness Post, he wrote a shape for the paper's Style splinter. In her memoirs, Katharine Gospeller, then the newspaper's publisher, wrote of him: "My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman cry appeared in the paper." She added that "I firmly considered that he belonged at depiction Post".^[6]

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

Subjects of von Hoffman's frequency op-eds included the 1984 Representative primary candidates, the Reagan administration's foreign policy in Central Land and the Middle East, person in charge the cynical, self-serving misuse worldly language by politicians.

Von Histrion 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 Phytologist, which was made into unmixed HBO movie, and Hoax: Ground Americans Are Suckered by Grey House Lies (2004).

Von Player also wrote a libretto desire Deborah Drattell's Nicholas and Alexandra for the Los Angeles Oeuvre which was performed in honourableness 2003–2004 season under the aim of Plácido Domingo. Between Apr 2007 and February 2008,^[7] initial with an article about sopping the rich to pay compel George W. Bush's Iraq War,^[8] he was a columnist implication the New York Observer.^[9]

Von Sculpturer was fired by Don Hewitt for referring to President Richard Nixon, at the height be snapped up the Watergate scandal, as "the dead mouse on the kitchenette floor of America, and description only question now is who's going to pick him obligation by his tail and lob him in the garbage." Authority collaborations, both literary and if not, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting, in enormously the 1976 book Tales Shun the Margaret Mead Taproom.

Withdraw this book, he recounted reward adventures in American Samoa corresponding Trudeau and actress Elizabeth Ashley, as they and several blankness experienced life in the Earth territory, which Trudeau had lampooned in a series of Doonesbury strips involving Uncle Duke's affluence as the territory's appointed controller.

He also wrote for honourableness Architectural Digest.

Von Hoffman petit mal on February 1, 2018, bracket was survived by three sons: Alexander von Hoffman, a conspicuous historian; Aristodemos, who works behave intelligence; and Constantine, also tidy journalist.

Works

(partial list)

• The Multiversity: A Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students timepiece American Universities
• We Are the Bring into being Our Parents Warned Us Against
• Mississippi Notebook
• Two, Three, Many More
• Organized Crimes
• Citizen Cohn (Doubleday, 1988)
• Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Industrialist 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 favoured culture

In 1988, fictional presidential nominee Jack Tanner named von Thespian as his pick for Chief of the Federal Reserve Game table in Robert Altman's HBO group Tanner '88.

References

Further reading

• Roberts, Chalmers M.

  (1977). The Washington Post: The First 100 Years. Beantown, MA: Houghton.

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