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          Nicholas von Hoffman

          Journalist

          Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, – February 1, ) was an American journalist and author.

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        2. The Hoffman family of New York is a prominent Baltic German family whose ancestor Martin Hoffman was born in Reval (now Tallinn), then the capital of Swedish.
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        4. Von Hoffman captures Alinsky's brilliant critique of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s organizational tactics and where and why they succeeded or failed.
        5. Von Hoffman was an explorer who once led a safari from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo—a walk that took him three years and was the basis of his two books.

          6. He first worked as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky in Chicago for ten years from to [1] Later, Von Hoffman wrote for The Washington Post, and most notably, was a commentator on the CBSPoint-Counterpoint segment for 60 Minutes,[2] from which Don Hewitt fired him in von Hoffman was also a columnist for The Huffington Post.

          Life and career

          A native New Yorker of German and Russian descent, von Hoffman was born to Anna L. Bruenn, a dentist, and Carl von Hoffman, an explorer and adventurer.[3][4] Von Hoffman never attended college.

          In the s, he worked on the research staff of the Industrial Relations Center of the University of Chicago, and then for Saul Alinsky as a field representative of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago, where his best known role was as lead organizer for The Woodlawn Organi