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Journalist

Nicholas von Hoffman (October 16, 1929 – February 1, 2018) was an American journalist and author. He first worked as a community organizer for Saul Alinsky in Chicago for ten years from 1953 to 1963.^[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 1974.

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 1950s, 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 orga