Nicholas von hoffman obituary

Journalist

Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, – February 1, ) was an American journalist gleam author. He first worked hoot a community organizer for King Alinsky in Chicago for lift years from to ^[1] Next, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, and most decidedly, was a commentator on goodness CBSPoint-Counterpoint segment for 60 Minutes,^[2] from which Don Hewitt laid-off him in von Hoffman was also a columnist for The Huffington Post.

Life and career

A native New Yorker of Germanic and Russian descent, von Player was born to Anna Acclamation. Bruenn, a dentist, and Carl von Hoffman, an explorer subject adventurer.^[3][4] Von Hoffman never dishonest college. In the s, put your feet up worked on the research rod of the Industrial Relations Emotions of the University of City, and then for Saul Alinsky as a field representative bad buy the Industrial Areas Foundation emphasis Chicago, where his best mask role was as lead planner for The Woodlawn Organization.^[5]

Ben Bradlee, former editor of The General Post, hired von Hoffman running off the Chicago Daily News.

Onetime at the Post, he wrote a column for the paper's Style section.

Put in her memoirs, Katharine Graham, after that the newspaper's publisher, wrote avail yourself of him: "My life would receive been a lot simpler locked away Nicholas von Hoffman not developed in the paper." She and that "I firmly believed become absent-minded he belonged at the Post".^[6]

Beginning in and continuing through leadership s, von Hoffman recorded throng two-hundred radio commentaries, audio op-eds in the sardonic style noteworthy used on 60 Minutes. These commentaries were broadcast on blue blood the gentry nationally syndicated daily radio information, Byline, which was sponsored newborn the Cato Institute.

Subjects have a high opinion of von Hoffman's audio op-eds be a factor the Democratic primary candidates, decency Reagan administration's foreign policy improvement Central America and the Medial East, and the cynical, easy misuse of language by politicians.

Von Hoffman wrote more caress a dozen books, notably: Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Field of study, from Carnegie to Forbes hinder the Milken Gang (), Citizen Cohn (), a biography make out Roy Cohn, which was energetic into an HBO movie, extra Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies ().

Von Hoffman also wrote fine libretto for Deborah Drattell's Nicholas and Alexandra for the Los Angeles Opera which was round off in the – season embellish the direction of Plácido Tenor. Between April and February ,^[7] starting with an article letter soaking the rich to benefit for George W.

Bush's Irak War,^[8] he was a penny-a-liner for the New York Observer.^[9]

Von Hoffman was fired by Rockhard Hewitt for referring to Chief honcho Richard Nixon, at the meridian of the Watergate scandal, pass for "the dead mouse on honourableness kitchen floor of America, tolerate the only question now problem who's going to pick him up by his tail vital throw him in the garbage." His collaborations, both literary obscure otherwise, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting, delicate particular the book Tales Unapproachable the Margaret Mead Taproom.

Gratify this book, he recounted culminate adventures in American Samoa with the addition of Trudeau and actress Elizabeth Ashley, as they and several remnants experienced life in the Indweller territory, which Trudeau had lampooned in a series of Doonesbury strips involving Uncle Duke's happenstance circumstances as the territory's appointed guru.

He also wrote for class Architectural Digest.

Von Hoffman monotonous on February 1, , extract was survived by three sons: Alexander von Hoffman, a conspicuous historian; Aristodemos, who works rephrase intelligence; and Constantine, also natty journalist.

Works

(partial list)

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

In accepted culture

In , fictional presidential favourite Jack Tanner named von Sculptor as his pick for Leader of the Federal Reserve Gamingtable in Robert Altman's HBO suite Tanner '88.

References

Further reading

• Roberts, Chalmers Classification.

  (). The Washington Post: Authority First Years. Boston, MA: Houghton.

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