Nicholas Von Hoffman, Author . Thunder's Mouth/Nation $13.95 (195p) ISBN 978-1-56025-582-6
In the spate of post–Iraq War books, Von Hoffman's tirade is a smart, elegant standout. A columnist for the New York Observer
(and author of several books, including Citizen Cohn
), Von Hoffman argues that U.S. citizens have been...
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Nicholas Von Hoffman, Author . Nation $26.95 (237p) ISBN 978-1-56858-439-3
Saul Alinsky, the fiery Chicago activist whose 1971 Rules for Radicals
is regarded as the organizer's bible, has already been memorialized in a biography, a documentary, and a play, which is why von Hoffman (Citizen Cohn
), who spent a decade...
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Nicholas Von Hoffman, Author Doubleday Books $22.5 (313p) ISBN 978-0-385-41674-0
Common though antibusiness books have become, there's notable wit in this rip-up of American capitalists. Von Hoffman's ( Citizen Cohn ) laceration of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Frick, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk et al. (who at least ``did...
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Nicholas Von Hoffman, Author Nation Books $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56025-712-7
The mixture of jargon, euphemism and cant that is the language of business gets a well-deserved demystification in this curmudgeon's lexicon. Von Hoffman, a New York Observer columnist, author of Citizen Cohn and self-defined ""grouchy cynic,""...
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