Background

Hoffman, Nicholas von was born on October 16, 1929 in New York City. Son of Carl and Anna (Bruenn) von Hoffman.

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.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance

    ( Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal ...)

  • Capitalist fools: Tales of American business from Carnegie to Malcolm Forbes

    (Whatever one might say about America's original business ...)

  • Capitalist Fools

    (The author of Citizen Cohn exposes modern business evils,...)

  • 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...)

  • The Multiversity; a Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students at American Universities

    (dust jacket damaged / stofwikkel beschadigd / / Pedagogy ...)

  • The Multiversity; a Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students at American Universities

    (dust jacket damaged / stofwikkel beschadigd / / Pedagogy ...)

  • We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against

    (Nicholas von Hoffman takes you inside the life world of y...)

  • We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against

    (a glance into the hippyland years and the 'children' of t...)

  • We are the People Our Parents Warned Us against (Elephant Paperbacks) (Paperback) - Common

    (The classic account of the 1960s counterculture in San Fr...)

  • The Fireside Watergate

    (Book by Nicholas Von Hoffman, Garry Trudeau)

  • Citizen Cohn

    (Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Coh)

  • Mississippi Notebook

    (Hardback by Nicholas Von Hoffman)

  • Left At The Post

    (Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas)

  • Tales from the Margaret Mead taproom

    (Book by Von Hoffman, Nicholas)

  • Citizen Cohn
  • WE ARE THE PEOPLE OUR PARENTS WARNED US AGAINST - A Close-up of the Whole Hippie Scene
  • By Nicholas von Hoffman - We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against: 1st (First) Edition
  • Two, Three, Many More
  • Two, Three, Many More; a Novel
  • Trout Fishing in the Reflecting Pool or the Fireside Watergate
  • The Fireside Watergate
  • The Fireside Watergate, inscribed by the American cartoonist best-known for the "Doonesbury" cartoons, with journalist Nicholas van Hoffman.
  • Trout Fishing in the Reflecting Pool (The Fireside Watergate)
  • Trout Fishing in the Reflectiong Poor or the Fireside Watergate
  • TALES FROM THE MARGARET MEAD TAPROOM, THE COMPLETE GONZO GOVERNORSHIP OF DOONESBURY'S UNCLE DUKE
  • Make-believe presidents: Illusions of power from McKinley to Carter
  • Citizen Cohn (Abacus Books)
  • Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn
  • Citizen Cohn 1st edition by Von Hoffman, Nicholas (1988) Hardcover
  • Citizen Cohn [Roy Cohn]
  • Citizen Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-01-01) Hardcover
  • Citizen Cohn: The Life and Times of Roy Cohn by Nicholas Von Hoffman (1988-01-01) Hardcover
  • Capitalist Fools Hardcover August 1, 1992
  • Capitalist Fools Tales of American Business, from Carnagie to Forbes to the Milken Gang
  • Capitalist Fools Tales of American Business, from Carnegie to Forbes to the Milk
  • Capitalist Fools * Tales Of American Business, From Carnegie to Forbes to .
  • The Multiversity
  • The Multiversity: A Personal Report on What Happens to Today's Students at Ameri
  • The multiversity;: A personal report on what happens to today's students at American universities

• Other Work

  • Author: Mississippi Notebook, 1964, Multiversity, 1966, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, 1968, Two, Three, Many More, 1969, Left at The Post, 1970, (with Garry Trudeau) Fireside Watergate, 1973, Tales From the Margaret Mead Taproom, 1976, Make-Believe Presidents: Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter, 1978, Organized Crimes, 1984, Citizen Cohn, 1988, Capitalist Fools, 1992, Hoax, 2004, Devil's Dictionary of Business, 2005, Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky, 2010

  • also articles.

Connections

Married Ann Byrne, 1950 (divorced). Children: Alexander, Aristodemos, Constantine. Married Patricia Bennett, 1979 (divorced).

father:

Carl Hoffman

mother:

Anna (Bruenn) Hoffman

spouses:

Ann Byrne

Patricia Bennett

children:

Alexander Hoffman

Aristodemos Hoffman

Constantine Hoffman