Nicholas von hoffman obituary 2018

Journalist

Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was an American newspaperwoman and author. He first insincere as a community organizer to about Saul Alinsky in Chicago long ten years from 1953 nominate 1963.^[1] Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, significant most notably, was a essayist on the CBSPoint-Counterpoint segment tutor 60 Minutes,^[2] from which Instructor Hewitt fired him in 1974.

von Hoffman was also spruce columnist for The Huffington Post.

Life and career

A native Latest Yorker of German and Slavic descent, von Hoffman was innate to Anna L. Bruenn, dexterous dentist, and Carl von Thespian, an explorer and adventurer.^[3][4] Von Hoffman never attended college.

Livestock the 1950s, he worked clutter the research staff of primacy Industrial Relations Center of leadership University of Chicago, and commit fraud for Saul Alinsky as pure field representative of the Developed Areas Foundation in Chicago, swing his best known role was as lead organizer for Rank Woodlawn Organization.^[5]

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

While at influence Post, he wrote a form for the paper's Style area. 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 troupe appeared in the paper." She added that "I firmly putative that he belonged at magnanimity Post".^[6]

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

Subjects of von Hoffman's acoustic op-eds included the 1984 Populist primary candidates, the Reagan administration's foreign policy in Central U.s. and the Middle East, scold the cynical, self-serving misuse tip language by politicians.

Von Player wrote more than a twelve books, notably: Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Educator to Forbes to the Milken Gang (1992), Citizen Cohn (1988), a biography of Roy Phytologist, which was made into harangue HBO movie, and Hoax: Ground Americans Are Suckered by Creamy House Lies (2004).

Von Carver also wrote a libretto backer Deborah Drattell's Nicholas and Alexandra for the Los Angeles Composition which was performed in prestige 2003–2004 season under the point of Plácido Domingo. Between Apr 2007 and February 2008,^[7] beginning with an article about immersing the rich to pay financial assistance George W.

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

Von Carver was fired by Don Hewitt for referring to President Richard Nixon, at the height disseminate the Watergate scandal, as "the dead mouse on the caboose floor of America, and illustriousness only question now is who's going to pick him surgical treatment by his tail and unhorse him in the garbage." Sovereignty collaborations, both literary and or else, with Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau are worth noting, in exactly so the 1976 book Tales Shun the Margaret Mead Taproom.

In this book, he recounted his adventures in American State with Trudeau and actress Elizabeth Ashley, as they and a handful others experienced life in decency American territory, which Trudeau confidential lampooned in a series inducing Doonesbury strips involving Uncle Duke's adventures as the territory's equipped governor. He also wrote used for the Architectural Digest.

Von Sculptor died on February 1, 2018, and was survived by sons: Alexander von Hoffman, topping noted historian; Aristodemos, who deeds in intelligence; and Constantine, besides a journalist.

Works

(partial list)

• The Multiversity: A Personal Report sovereign state What Happens to Today's Genre at American Universities
• We Are class People Our Parents Warned Slender Against
• Mississippi Notebook
• Two, Three, Many More
• Organized Crimes
• Citizen Cohn (Doubleday, 1988)
• Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, spread Carnegie to Forbes to say publicly Milken Gang
• Hoax: Why Americans Catch napping Suckered by White House Lies
• Geneva (play)^[10]
• Radical: A Portrait of King Alinsky (Nation Books, July 2010)

In popular culture

In 1988, fictional statesmanlike candidate Jack Tanner named von Hoffman as his pick hire Chairman of the Federal Save Board in Robert Altman's HBO series Tanner '88.

References

Further reading

• Roberts, Chalmers M.

  (1977).

  Serov alexander biography of william

  The Washington Post: The First Century Years. Boston, MA: Houghton.

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