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Nicholas Von HoffmanNicholas von Hoffman is an American journalist and author. He became famous as a columnist for the Washington Post and later well-known to TV audiences as a "Point-Counterpoint" commentator for CBS's 60 Minutes. Von Hoffman never went to college; he worked in the Chicago stockyards and later served as a political organizer for the community activist Saul Alinsky; Ben Bradlee, then the editor of the Post, hired him from the Chicago Daily News. He was said to have been a brilliant reporter, and wrote an incendiary column for the paper's Style section. In her memoirs, Katherine Graham, then the newspaper's publisher, wrote of him: My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman not appeared in the paper. She added, however, that I firmly believed that he belonged at the Post. http://www.cjr.org/issues/2002/5/wash-stability.asp Hoffman is the author more than a dozen books, notably: Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business, from Carnegie to Forbes to the Milken Gang (1992) and Citizen Cohen (1998), a biography of Roy Cohn which was made into an HBO movie. His most recent title is Hoax: Why Americans Are Suckered by White House Lies (2004). Hoffman also wrote a libretto, Nicholas and Alexandra for the Los Angeles Opera which was performed in 2003 season under the direction of Plcido Domingo and Citizen Cohn, a biography of Roy Cohn. Currently he is a columnist for the New York Observer. External links
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