Background
Hoffman, Nicholas von was born on October 16, 1929 in New York City. Son of Carl and Anna (Bruenn) von Hoffman.
Nicholas von Hoffman
October 16, 1929 New York City
Associate director Industrial Area Foundation, Chicago, 1954-1963. Member staff Chicago Daily News, 1963-1966, Washington Post, 1966—1976. Columnist New York Observer, 1993—2008. Contributing writer Architectural Digest, 1996—2007.
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Citizen Cohn
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Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn
http://www.amazon.com/Citizen-Cohn-The-Life-Times/dp/0245545050%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ%26tag%3Dprabook-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0245545050
The Multiversity
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Tales from the Margaret Mead taproom
(Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas)
Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Margaret-taproom-Nicholas-Hoffman/dp/0836206312%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ%26tag%3Dprabook-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0836206312
Capitalist fools: Tales of American business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes
(Whatever one might say about America's original business ...)
Whatever one might say about America's original business giants - the Carnegies, the Morgans, the du Ponts - they built America, virtually inventing modern business techniques in the process, so as to reap profits while improving every American's standard of living. Today's rich and powerful, on the other hand, accumulate vast wealth through sleight-of-hand paper-shuffling, business song-and-dance routines like "leveraged buyouts," and swapping blips on computer screens. They don't make anything, except exorbitant incomes, and improving our quality of life is nowhere near the top of their agenda. What went wrong? When, and how, did we lose our way? In Capitalist Fools, Nicholas von Hoffman answers these questions by telling the surprising, often rollicking story of American business - what its strengths were in its heyday, what went wrong in the last two decades, and what we can do to get it back on track. It is no accident that in the mid-1970s Malcolm Forbes became a national celebrity. The good times were ending. The glory days of American business were long past, and the growth years of the sixties were unequivocally over. With the reality of increasing wealth and higher standards of living a thing of the past, the illusion became all that much more important. If Americans could no longer lead the good life, they could at least watch Malcolm live it for them. But Malcolm played his part too well. He and his peers spent so flamboyantly and publicly that Americans actually believed, all through the "go-go years" of the eighties, that this country's wealth was increasing, and that there was plenty to go around. They were wrong. American business and industry were corrupt and collapsing. While many books, from Liar's Poker to Den of Thieves, have exposed modern business evils, they have treated them as isolated cases and concluded, in essence, that the problem was that the men involved were thieves. Capitalist Fools is the first book to give these evils a conte
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We are the People Our Parents Warned Us against (Elephant Paperbacks) (Paperback) - Common
(The classic account of the 1960s counterculture in San Fr...)
The classic account of the 1960s counterculture in San Francisco. A rare example of journalism that approaches art in one direction and the best of social science in another. Newsweek.
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Two, Three, Many More; a Novel
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The Multiversity; a Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students at American Universities
(dust jacket damaged / stofwikkel beschadigd / / Pedagogy ...)
dust jacket damaged / stofwikkel beschadigd / / Pedagogy and Education / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / hard cover / dust jacket / 15 x 22 cm / 202 .pp /
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Capitalist Fools Hardcover August 1, 1992
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Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-01-01) Hardcover
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Capitalist Fools
(The author of Citizen Cohn exposes modern business evils,...)
The author of Citizen Cohn exposes modern business evils, describing its strengths in its heyday, how Malcolm Forbes convinced the public that the good times would never end, and argues for a return to ethical business. Tour.
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Citizen Cohn 1st edition by Von Hoffman, Nicholas (1988) Hardcover
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
(a glance into the hippyland years and the 'children' of t...)
a glance into the hippyland years and the 'children' of that era that grew up and became the USA "today"......
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Citizen Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-01-01) Hardcover
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Left At The Post
(Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas)
Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas
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The Fireside Watergate
(Book by Nicholas Von Hoffman, Garry Trudeau)
Book by Nicholas Von Hoffman, Garry Trudeau
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fireside-Watergate-Nicholas-Hoffman/dp/0836205472%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ%26tag%3Dprabook-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0836205472
Mississippi Notebook
(Hardback by Nicholas Von Hoffman)
Hardback by Nicholas Von Hoffman
http://www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Notebook-Nicholas-Von-Hoffman/dp/B0007DMVAM%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ%26tag%3Dprabook-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0007DMVAM
The multiversity;: A personal report on what happens to today's students at American universities
https://www.amazon.com/multiversity-personal-students-American-universities/dp/B0006BNWJ4?SubscriptionId=AKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ&tag=prabook-20&linkCode=sp1&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0006BNWJ4
By Nicholas von Hoffman - We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against: 1st (First) Edition
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Make-believe presidents: Illusions of power from McKinley to Carter
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We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against
(Nicholas von Hoffman takes you inside the life world of y...)
Nicholas von Hoffman takes you inside the life world of young people who are actively rebelling against society in growing numbers. This compelling report is based on the author's lengthy stay in the Haight and other hippie sanctuaries around the country, where youth attracted world-wide attention. Their politics, their sex, above all their fascination with dope -- grass, acid, speed, and smack -- offer astonishing insights into the mood of a large segment of American youth. Mr. von Hoffman brings the movement to earth in uncompromising terms. He is impressed and dismayed by what he found and not inclined to romanticize those whom the mass media have found so attractive. His book digs deep to illuminate the profound changes that are occurring withing american youth today i.e. 1988. --from the dust jacket
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco
(Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years...)
Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years, but none has surpassed Nicholas von Hoffman’s classic account of the 1960s counter-culture in San Francisco. “In the summer of 1967,” he writes, “youth drew attention to itself by clustering in large numbers in most major American cities, where they broke the narcotics laws proudly, publicly, and defiantly. At the same time, they enunciated a different social philosophy and a new politics, and perhaps even mothered into life a subculture that was new to America. This book tries to explain what happened in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. For it was in the Haight that whatever happened, happened most vividly and so intensely that it drew international attention to itself.” “An impressively serious treatment.”―New York Times. “A rare example of journalism that approaches art in one direction and the best of social science in another.”―Newsweek.
http://www.amazon.com/People-Parents-Warned-Against-Counter-Culture/dp/0929587065%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJRRWTH346WSPOAFQ%26tag%3Dprabook-20%26linkCode%3Dsp1%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0929587065
Citizen Cohn
(Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Coh)
Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Coh
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Trout Fishing in the Reflecting Pool or the Fireside Watergate
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WE ARE THE PEOPLE OUR PARENTS WARNED US AGAINST - A Close-up of the Whole Hippie Scene
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- Citizen Cohn Roy Cohn
- Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes by Nicholas von Hoffman (1993-01-18)
- We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco by Nicholas von Hoffman (1988-12-01) (Brand New. In Stock. Will be shipped from US. Excellent C...)
- Citizen Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-03-01)
- Capitalist Fools by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1992-08-01) (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
Nicholas von Hoffman Edit Profile
Education
Graduate, Fordham Preparatory School, 1948.
Career
Associate director Industrial Area Foundation, Chicago, 1954-1963. Member staff Chicago Daily News, 1963-1966, Washington Post, 1966—1976. Columnist New York Observer, 1993—2008.
Contributing writer Architectural Digest, 1996—2007.
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Capitalist fools: Tales of American business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes
(Whatever one might say about America's original business ...)
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Capitalist Fools
(The author of Citizen Cohn exposes modern business evils,...)
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco
(Books about the sixties have proliferated in recent years...)
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The Multiversity; a Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students at American Universities
(dust jacket damaged / stofwikkel beschadigd / / Pedagogy ...)
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We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against
(Nicholas von Hoffman takes you inside the life world of y...)
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
(a glance into the hippyland years and the 'children' of t...)
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We are the People Our Parents Warned Us against (Elephant Paperbacks) (Paperback) - Common
(The classic account of the 1960s counterculture in San Fr...)
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The Fireside Watergate
(Book by Nicholas Von Hoffman, Garry Trudeau)
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Citizen Cohn
(Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Coh)
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Mississippi Notebook
(Hardback by Nicholas Von Hoffman)
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Tales from the Margaret Mead taproom
(Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas)
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Left At The Post
(Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas)
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Capitalist Fools by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1992-08-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
- Citizen Cohn
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco by Nicholas von Hoffman (1988-12-01)
(Brand New. In Stock. Will be shipped from US. Excellent C...)
- Citizen Cohn Roy Cohn
- Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn
- The Multiversity
- Capitalist Fools: Tales of American Business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes by Nicholas von Hoffman (1993-01-18)
- Two, Three, Many More; a Novel
- Capitalist Fools Hardcover August 1, 1992
- Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-01-01) Hardcover
- Citizen Cohn 1st edition by Von Hoffman, Nicholas (1988) Hardcover
- Citizen Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-01-01) Hardcover
- Citizen Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-03-01)
- The multiversity;: A personal report on what happens to today's students at American universities
- By Nicholas von Hoffman - We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against: 1st (First) Edition
- Make-believe presidents: Illusions of power from McKinley to Carter
- Trout Fishing in the Reflecting Pool or the Fireside Watergate
- WE ARE THE PEOPLE OUR PARENTS WARNED US AGAINST - A Close-up of the Whole Hippie Scene
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Capitalist fools: Tales of American business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes
Connections
Married Ann Byrne, 1950 (divorced). Children: Alexander, Aristodemos, Constantine. Married Patricia Bennett, 1979 (divorced).
Education
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1948
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1954 - 1963
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1963 - 1966
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1966 - 1976
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1993 - 2008
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1996 - 2007